Linus wants an ARM Laptop!

[DrYak]

Imagine going back to 1990 and thinking the Pinebook Pro is not powerful enough to be a developer machine for anyone.

I wish I had a better recollection of how long the 0.97.6 kernel took to compile on a 486DX-66 with 8 MB of RAM, which is probably the slowest machine I ever did kernel programming on, vs how long it takes to compile the far far larger 5.9.10 kernel on a Pinebook Pro.

I don't quite remember if I was still using the 386DX first time I attempted compiling it, but it was definitely an overnighter.
1998: SUSE 6.0, 486DX2-66, kernel 2.0 (and 2.2) definitely took multiple hours and I left them for the night.

Want to use Linux, no time to tinker??

Looks like Linus has grown old and lost his mojo.
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What if Linus had the attitude "not wanting to tinker" when he started Linux?

Guys, you're forgetten that tinkering the Linux kernel is already his day job and probably eats nearly all its time.

He probably prefers spending whatever is left available into diving (and tinkering his diving computer), rather than fighting hardware by company that actively prevents 3rd party OS and dreams about locking their desktop users into their iOS walled garden ("Fuck you™, Apple").

There are only 24h in a day, you now, you have to spend them wisely.