Memory Leaks Suck
Today I rebooted my main laptop (called "vonick") because memory leaks had added up to the point everything was getting very, very, very slow. It was possible to get things done, but everything took a long time and mistakes could be made due to the slowness (e.g. delay in window focus shift, which sometimes meant closing the wrong window). This was the first reboot in nearly a year. The second laptop (called "bubi") will soon reach 1,000 days of uptime.
GNU/Linux is very robust, but it is by no means immune to bad programming practices that result in memory leaks.
Writing good programs takes time. Slop ('vibe') coding means lots of bad programs. Bad programs are bad for the environment (bloat), set aside the environmental cost of slop. What we need is high-quality programs, not millions of programs and fresh rewrites for no real purpose. █