As a long-time Linux user I can’t say I’ve noticed big changes in the last 10 years… Maybe I’m forgetting, but when I first used Linux on a desktop I had to compile drivers from source to have working graphics acceleration and WiFi. Things have come a long way since then, but by 2015 I feel like those big things were all sorted. There are still many small things but I think most of those are unchanged, too.

widespread adoption means you can get things like contributors who will then work on optimising battery life and other fundamentals.

I believe RedHat uses Fedora as a kind of guinea pig to test new stuff out they want to put in RHEL. That results in stuff being put in before it’s actually ready even for a fairly bleeding-edge distro.

I don’t understand how regex comes into it? Sounds tricky though!

I asked an LLM to write a jq scriptlet for me today. It wasn’t even complicated, it just beat working it out/trying to craft the write string to search Stackoverflow for.