Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
The most frustrating part of Linux for me is all the damn mental CPU cycle I have to spend keeping up with the naming and positioning of the various distros. Often it borders on drama.The other day I commented that I took my Pinebook Pro off the toy shelf and loaded up Manjaro. I commented on HN about how much I liked the user experience. The first reply I got was something about the drama with some dude named Phil. Alternatively I’ll put my head down for a while and forget about the lineage of the various options and then something will crop up about this or that distro is going away, being repositioned or whatnot.Why does this matter? Because I want to use it for real work and I don’t want to spend time planning a long term OS strategy. There are other things to worry about. I’m far from alone in this. That’s why folks reach for Mac OS and Windows.Downvote away, but I really do want to love Linux. I just don’t want it to be so hard to love.