Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix

Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).

  People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bingo.

    Contributing and/or maintaining a FOSS project < not getting murdered by my wife for “playing on my computer instead of spending time with my family.”

    It could be some of the most mission-critical work imaginable, but she’d still see it as goofing around because I’m not getting paid, and she requires attention. And I love the hell out of my wife, so happy wife indeed equals happy life.

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    • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Make linux your wife and then everyone will be happy.

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah but the issue with the guy leading Asahi Linux, which is probably the other one mentioned, has nothing to do with him being old.

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