>>78199058It's not. Read it yourself, shill.
>>78199012It's very simple
- Gentoo
- Without the nukernel constant stream of endless amounts of bugs
- Without the pants on head retarded numaintainer's garbage, such as removing perfectly working ebuilds of perfectly working software because nobody is officially a maintainer for it, or the whole texlive maintainer retardation (look it up), etc.
- Without the upgrade problems caused by broken force-pushed upgrade paths (see the python migration as a recent example).
All of that is not only fully doable today (though nobody has stepped up to actually do it), it was the norm near 2006-2008. Yes, the linux kernel was full of bugs back then, too. But it wasn't even comparable to the abomination it's become.
Other examples: kde and gnome were both excellent, featureful, extremely lightweight and solid DEs. Now they're both endlessly broken to the point of being nigh unusable without frequent device restarts, yet xfce hasn't stepped up their game at all and still routinely freezes permanently within 15 minutes of use, or thrash undocumented configs preventing it from ever starting again without any user intervention (it's all in the bug reports, unaddressed for half to full decades).
Those aren't things that are hard to achieve, those are literally lowest-bar tier shit.