There's a bit of unfortunate drama going on right now in Steam Deck land, with the Steam Deck plugin NonSteamLaunchers for Decky Loader getting the boot.
Cherry picking, but one could argue that rudeness is a lazy general term and Linus’ rudeness is about not including BS while NSL wanted the inverse of including something others did to show off. Not an apology for either of those blokes
It’s kinda hard not getting jaded when entitled people (or companies) expect commercial grade support for something you work on your free time for pennies or for free, and to top that usually are pretty abusive from the get go.
Tbh if I worked for donations and had entitled users expecting me to continue perfecting a hobby indefinitely ID get pretty burnt out, but racism and targeted harrassment would not be included in rudeness if thats what this maintainer was doing
Being rude doesn’t get you too far in OSS.
But uh… Linus is kinda rude NGL. Part of his charm no?
No, it’s not. It’s tolerated because of his importance.
Being the creator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.
Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.
BDFL privilege…
Cherry picking, but one could argue that rudeness is a lazy general term and Linus’ rudeness is about not including BS while NSL wanted the inverse of including something others did to show off. Not an apology for either of those blokes
Big Dick For Life?
Benevolent dictator for life
BDFL is such a weird concept to stem from the late 20th century.
Ahh, I am familiar with the term, but not the acronym.
Hahaha please let this be the official term.
Yeah, a lot of long term projects have rude maintainers it seems.
It’s kinda hard not getting jaded when entitled people (or companies) expect commercial grade support for something you work on your free time for pennies or for free, and to top that usually are pretty abusive from the get go.
Tbh if I worked for donations and had entitled users expecting me to continue perfecting a hobby indefinitely ID get pretty burnt out, but racism and targeted harrassment would not be included in rudeness if thats what this maintainer was doing