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[–] jobes 2 points (+2|-0)

I can't blame them. I recently had to port our codebase to Ubuntu 18.04 and there are critical fundamental problems at the OS level with that and backwards compatibility. libcurl was the first bottleneck and I can't even explain how I ended up fixing it because I had to wipe my machine after fucking it up the first time and just saved a very long terminal log of what I did that eventually worked. By default they symlink the system libraries and remove the version number in the symlink file.name. that makes a problem when the OS changes what version they distribute and there is no support for side-by-side .so files with different version numbers. When those libraries fundamentally change and applications are dependent upon those older versions, the OS simply can no longer handle that.

[–] CDanger 2 points (+2|-0)

There is always Debian, "the universal operating system" for neglected platforms. Given that Cannonical's market is server/cloud, I doubt x86-32 makes them much money. I'm also pretty sure they're still keeping 32-bit ARM for the IoT segment.

[–] jobes 2 points (+2|-0)

I fully support debian. I thought Ubuntu was going to replace that but they went full retard. Raw Unix distros are the hot thing right now