Linux in 2025: Less Software, Less Features, Less Tested... & Slower

Big Tech & the major Linux foundations are driving Desktop Linux into the ditch. Plus: No "Linux Sucks" this year. ... {ts:0} The months and years ahead for Linux look really frigin bleak. Less software {ts:10} compatibility, less total features, less accessibility, less tested software, slower software. The the number of ways {ts:20} you can quantify the goodness and the quality of a desktop operating system and platform. all of them. It's just {ts:31} going into the toilet. And it what's really horrific about it is it's by design. {ts:39} It is a goal by big tech, by the Linux and open source foundations, by the major Linux projects. They're all going {ts:48} into this eyes open and they're saying, "Yes, we are going to do this." They're driving Linux headirst into a really {ts:55} gigantic ditch. and it's just really really crummy. I wanted to walk through with you just some of the ways these ... {ts:74} to start with to start with and those of you who have been watching the coverage and listening to the coverage from the {ts:80} Lunduke Journal over the last few years you know most of this but most major Linux distributions have {ts:89} somewhere in their road map, the plan to swap out the core utilities with untested … Rust is going to save us all from {ts:143} memories or whatever. We'll put that all off to the side for a minute. The reality is if you look at the {ts:151} replacement solutions for pseudo LS and everything else, they are distinctly less tested than the software they're {ts:160} replacing and they don't have all the features of the software that they're replacing. … {ts:272} face is when we switch away from the tested supported solution of Xorg and X11 over to Wayland, we do lose some {ts:284} things in the process. And it's worth noting what those things are. We have significantly worse accessibility {ts:292} features. … {ts:314} to Wayland because the Wayland protocol itself and the Wayland implementations that exist don't provide them with the {ts:323} the the vision accessibility features they need. So they simply cannot move over. So that means that we are by {ts:331} forcing people to distributions and people to move over to Wayland from X11, we're saying we want to leave uh {ts:340} visually impaired people behind like on purpose, right? That that is just that's just the way it is. But we're also {ts:347} having significant software compatibility issues and and we are talking about the ability to run some {ts:354} pieces of software. we will lose that along the way but we are also just losing some feature compatibility issues … So, we're we're we're we're losing functionality. We're losing {ts:416} accessibility. We're losing the ability to run some pieces of software. And to and to put a little cherry on top of all {ts:423} of that, we're actually losing for at least some pieces of software speed. Now, I I want to I want to preface this … What they really mean by that is the {ts:538} loss of 32bit support libraries. And this is a real big key thing here because what that means is that by {ts:547} default these systems will no longer ship with the ability to run 32bit software on a 64-bit system, right? … {ts:665} distributions. You will have access to less software. The software you are running will have less features. You {ts:672} will have less accessibility software. The software you are relying on, including the most core utilities in {ts:678} your system, will have not just less features, but be less tested and will have an unknown amount level of uh … {ts:1249} utterly from within. It's being made slower. It's being made buggier. It's being made so it has less features and {ts:1256} less accessibility, less available software, runs on less hardware, and on and on and on and on. People are being {ts:1264} kicked out of Linux because they have the wrong views or are the wrong religion.