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What's so wrong about GNU?

This is really a case of "If you have to ask, you'll never know."

That's not meant to be derogatory, just that if you don't have a problem with GNU, you won't have a problem with GNU, because there's nothing wrong with it, it's jut a matter of opinion (usually about the GPL).

There are some areas where GNU (particularly glibc) is somewhat bloaty in the code department compared to other implementations. That can, sometimes, matter, but I agree it tends to be a question of taste and not one of morals.

Allright! The article nor the FAQ page didn't mention why it was hated so much haha.

Thank for the answer!

I updated the FQA with some stuff discussed in these comments: https://agunix.org/fqa

Thanks! BTW, It seems to be a really tedious work, I like the result :)

glibc and buildtools can be a bit of a pain to work with. Maybe he was exposed to that during cross-compilation.

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