However, I would say when talking about Linux specifically, there is a high chance that people talking about stuff being broken are people breaking stuff.

I’m sure you’re right. It used to be complicated to set up printers, bluetooth, audio, but even then once set up they were fine. Now all those and just about anything else you need to manage on the machine has an easy GUI

My wife’s computer runs Linux and she’s never had to use a terminal (she’s not a techie type)

For the UDP broadcast, you should be able to catch and change them with simple firewall rules, you’d catch packets with a destination address of the broadcast address and send them to a chain that rewrites the destination

So throw an error at runtime on that macro, most workbooks aren’t the target of a macro

Fine for me too

They said ~/

I don’t think there’s any protection for the current user’s home directory

That’s a bit much, perhaps though they should use a real mode OS

Yeah, there’s a Debian implementation of GNU/hurd. Debian recommend you run it in a VM

The Linux kernel (the part that gives Linux the name) is antithetical to Linux philosophy? I could understand it being contrary to GNU philosophy