@hipsterelectron I read through some of the mailing list last night while I couldn't sleep (which didn't help as I immediately began to hate a number of people involved there) and I noticed they said that basically the kernel is *too fucking big* and it takes ages for people to learn a subsystem, much less the whole thing, and now I wanna learn more about micro vs monolithic kernels not just as a technical exercise but as a "how the fuck do we avoid repeating this mistake in the future"

"Just fork it if you don't like it" says the man whose entire job is *just* doing pull requests to a piece of software so large that the maintainers say it basically takes a whole fucking year to learn how to work on various parts of it.