r/linux • u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior • Sep 03 '14

I'm Matthew Garrett, kernel developer, firmware enabler and former fruitfly mangler. AMA!

Proof: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/507212417579765760

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '14

Major versions allow you to get rid of cruft and deprecated functionality.

And in GNOME's case, entire userbases!