Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 03/06/2025 10:01, Marc Haber wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

e.g. We will make your default to be IPV6 enabled even though no one is
actually using it

 There is nothing wrong with that. Nothing breaks when IPv6 gets
enabled.
 

I beg to differ. BIND9 broke for me entirely because it was looking to connect via IPV6 to DNS servers that it couldn't reach,.
I made it work as befire by disabling its entiure ability to accepot V6 requests or contact DNS srevers vi V6

Or systemd.

 No init script broke because there was another program invoking it.
 

Well yes, some did.
in my case IIRC NFS came up before wifi had established contact, delaying boot for minutes.
Someone moved WIFI into userland and gave it a low startup priority while NFS had not been given a systemd dependency that included wifi.

Its all very MCP like "Fuck the users, we are the cool people"
>
That's why stupid people like Apple. They spend the time on a user
interface, insist that its the only way to use it, and document it.

 And yet apple is the company who cares the least about leaving
obsolete things behind. They just do it. Windows carried on with the
Win16 API for two decades because _their_ App developers couldn't be
bothered with upgrading. Apple just says "your 32bit apps are going to
stop working with iOS 18" and the app developers shuffle along.
 

My point exactly. Apple makes things simple for stupid people at considerable expense to the numpties who buy it.
I remember vividly a conversation with my lead programmer:
'how long will it take to build that'?
'Oh about a couple of days'
'And to document it afterwards'.
'Um - make that a week, then'
And the more 'feature rich' the code is the more documentation it needs.

Greetings
Marc

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