Imagine being a mechanic for Mercedes and receiving an email from a customer who complains about leaky doors and strange engine noises – and only after four or five tedious mails back and forth you figure out the car was bought from modder who added gullwing doors, shortened the wheelbase, and added twin turbochargers.
I guess that's how #Linux developers feel when they find out the bug someone reported only happens with a heavily modified #kernel like those shipped in RHEL, SLES, or Ubuntu.
@kernellogger Fuuuuck, I miss my 300ce now.
@Brett_E_Carlock never owned a Mercedes, but my parents had a ordinary 250D (W124) I occasionally drove.
It helped me a lot understanding the difference between the peculiarities of rear- and front-wheel drive and how to handle each well on snowy or icy roads…
@kernellogger Ah, that is a lovely car we didn't get stateside!
My father was a Mercedes mechanic for most of his life before going into sales.
The 300ce he bought back from the folks he sold it to new when it was returned to the dealership to be wholesaled out for parts after 13 years of driving.
We worked on it together, raced it together, and even did an offroad rally in it together.
I ran it as long as I could, but now it sits unrepaired as he sent it up to me right before he died.
@kernellogger At a previous job, I remember someone from support contacting me and asking if we supported our application on Linux From Scratch systems.
@kernellogger or incredibly common in gamedev.
"Why isn't <npcnane> spawning?"
"You're running a mod called banish_<npcnane>", working as intended."
@kevingranade interesting
And yeah, similar, albeit it might be slightly different:
There people installed the mod themselves I assume; for the kernel many simply do not realize that their vendor gives them a heavily modified car, which is why the original manufacturer is unwillig to support it.
And I guess I don't blame people much: these are details most people do not want to care about in these hectic times.
@kernellogger The weirdest bugs are those reported by Mac and Windows users, and certainly it is caused by weird behavior of the OS itself.
Certainly, these Karens feel completely entitled that you fix the free software for them for free, because they bought that OS.