Optical disks rot even in perfect storage conditions. There’s no failure proof storage solution easily available.

What is the point of this comment? Linus was childish as hell in the email chain and started a bunch of drama for literally no reason. I’m not mad as much as I am embarrassed to be a part of the Linux community when things like this happen.

People are more mad about how he did it rather than just the action he took. If he just explained why without being a prick nobody would care.

Gnome on laptop, KDE on desktop. I go back and forth with those DEs.