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I am struggling to understand the point this guy is trying to make. He's upset that the system works, and he's upset that it's doesn't require immediate manual intervention at every step. Is it just the nostalgia talking?
To most of us, an operating systems is means to an end. We use it to do work, or play games, or whatever else you want to do. If anything, Linux overall is in the best state it's ever been, and it only continues to improve.
If the low-level manual work is what he wants, then there are certainly options he can adopt into his workflow, but outside of that, it just feels like aimless anger
He’s saying that “pioneers take the arrows, and the settlers take the land”.
Haiku makes him feel like a pioneer again, and it sounds like the tinkering is fun.
Based on your comment, it is highly unlikely that you would have used Linux desktop in the late 90s for the same reason you wouldn’t use Haiku today. A lot of people feel out on computers, if it was just about doing work then the vintage computer hobbyists would all find something else to do.