Differences between 2.4 and 2.6 were quite big, I don't think there was another such big change in kernel releases any time later. But that was also the time when Linux was transitioning from being a hobby project (already useful for serious stuff) to being a serious professional operating system – the last moment for major refactoring.
Linux kernel is still changing and being constantly refactored, but now the changes tend to be more gradual and version numbers matter much less.
Forbidden books?
Then my recent research was wrong - I tried to make it work and failed. Then read somewhere it is not supported. But it can be that it is valid EFI configuration, but not supported by Windows and some firmware implementations.
I don't think I have ever seen an EFI firmware which was not broken in one way or another.
On EFI systems all bootloaders are supposed to reside on a single partition. EFI does not support multiple 'EFI system partitions', so operating systems have to share a single one. And this is usually not a problem if it is the one Windows choose. The problem most often is broken EFI firmware which fails to correctly handle adding and removing boot entries. Or Windows, which fails to boot if anything changes (disk order and such), even though everything is still available.
Sulfur polution actually has cooling effect, so it is kind of opposite of greenhouse gases. It sucks in different ways, though.
They destroy everything they touch...
I am only happy for the damaged they made to MySQL popularity. ;-)
Jira was ok until they dropped self-hosting option. Why should I keep internal development data at third party server?
Other Atlassian software, though... oh, what a mess. And it only was getting worse with any new release. I am glad we have dumped it all.
I would be even more proud with 'there is no spoon',, but I haven't even got close to this one.
And a lot of users' frustration, especially on more niche platforms (Linux, ARM, etc.) - things look much better on release when the code have been regularly compiled and, hopefully tested, on all platforms, not just the one the lead developer uses.
Why guessing, when the answer is in the article?
Common person is not traveling a lot via plane (especially between different continents)! That is rich people privilege and when it is subsidized then everybody else, including the common people you mention, pays for that.
I have never used Arch Linux, but have read their wiki a lot. It is really very useful.