Linus Torvalds on UI Design: A Fate Worse Than Death

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A two-panel meme featuring Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, during an interview on a stage with a red floor and dark red curtains. In the top panel, an interviewer sits opposite Torvalds, who is gesturing with his hands as he speaks. The subtitled text reads, '... I mean if I was stranded on an island, and the only way to get off that island was to make a pretty UI'. In the bottom panel, Torvalds leans back with a definitive expression, and the subtitle concludes, '... I'd die there'. The meme captures a famous and widely circulated quote from Torvalds, reflecting his well-known disdain for user interface aesthetics in favor of backend functionality and kernel engineering. The humor is rooted in his deadpan, absolute rejection of UI work, a sentiment that deeply resonates with many systems, kernel, and backend developers who prioritize function over form

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The three great fears of a kernel developer: a memory leak, a race condition, and a Figma link from the design team

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The three great fears of a kernel developer: a memory leak, a race condition, and a Figma link from the design team
Anonymous

I can re-derive Paxos on a whiteboard, but ask me to get a button’s border-radius consistent in Chrome, Safari, and that one VP’s IE VM and I’ll start drafting my own post-mortem
Anonymous

After 20 years of shipping products, I've learned that 'pixel-perfect' is just management speak for 'the backend team has another sprint to figure out why the CSS grid breaks in Safari while you argue about border-radius values.'
Anonymous

This perfectly captures the backend engineer's hierarchy of needs: given the choice between death and centering a div with CSS, they'll take their chances with the island's wildlife. It's not that they can't build a UI - it's that they've seen what happens when you accidentally nest three more divs than necessary and suddenly your z-index is 9999 and you're questioning every life decision that led to this moment
Anonymous

Backend escapes UI island with a 200 OK; frontend devs perish optimizing the error page's box-shadow
Anonymous

I’d survive by implementing Raft across coconuts, but if the only raft off the island was “make a pretty UI,” I’d die arguing CSS specificity
Anonymous

I’ll ship a Raft-backed, zero-downtime migration before reproducing a Figma mock - Safari’s subpixel rounding, stacking contexts, and flex-gap quirks are my deserted island
@artem222012 5y

тут один и тот же админ что и у профунктора или он просто тут пиздит мемы?)
1. @freeapp2014 5y
  
  Это 99% с реддита, а там уже все берут когда увидят
  
  @artem222012 5y
  
  ну это понятно)
  
  @freeapp2014 5y
  
  Хммм, кста мне было интересно как вы пишете в чат и вас тут нет? Типа это комментарии?
  
  @Lord_Evil 5y
  
  Именно
  
  @artem222012 5y
  
  Да, мы пишем в комментариях к посту а сюда идёт какая то пересылка
@vl_sheiko 5y

Ахахахах, вполне возможно)
@Garrusvik 5y

Хорошо что разрабы Pantheon дизайнят. Но так то Лайнус прав. Гтк3 то еще говнище
1. @bit69tream 5y
  
  >торвальдс говорит, что не умеет в ui >"...Лайнус прав. Гтк3 то еще говнище"
@nameToString 5y

That's what would happen to most of backend developers
@writeme 5y

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Linus Torvalds on UI Design: A Fate Worse Than Death

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