Saying "appeal to authority" doesn't refute the point made above. Expertise is real. Someone with 25 years of experience with the linux kernel will know a lot more about linux and C than the average HN commenter. Almost certainly more than me.
Its possible that you might be right about whatever point you're trying to make. But if you are, I can't tell that from your comments. I can't even find a clear claim in your comments, let alone any substantive argument in support of that claim.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has been a Linux kernel developer for 25 years, responsible for large parts of the kernel.
You’ve been a hacker news commenter for 1 day.
Could you pipe down with these wild claims that you know better than him?
Also, please don’t complain about downvotes. It’s tedious to read.