“Linux started out as a hobbyist project, but it has well and truly lost its hobbyist roots.”
Hector Martin quit as Asahi Linux lead and called Torvalds’s handling of Rust a failure of leadership. Asahi made Linux run on Apple Silicon, which Torvalds said he wanted. Users kept demanding Thunderbolt and newer chip support while the harassment piled up. Upstream lost a maintainer last week and Asahi lost its lead this week.