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    Not many of us are Linus Torvalds, for the rest of us mere humans we need the debugger. Commented May 21, 2011 at 18:54
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    kernels don't lean well to debuggers. Commented May 21, 2011 at 22:56
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    Yeah, kernel programming is a different field than userspace programming. I don't typically agree with Linus's opinions for userspace, but they are definitely respectable when dealing with kernelspace. Commented May 22, 2011 at 0:22
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    "I don't like debuggers" doesn't mean "I don't use debuggers." What Linus actually said was "I don't like debuggers. Never have, probably never will. I use gdb all the time, but I tend to use it not as a debugger, but as a disassembler on steroids that you can program." (I know some will try to twist that to mean that Linus doesn't use a debugger, but that's not accurate.) Commented May 24, 2011 at 21:16
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    It seems like Linus Torvalds and I never agree on anything. Commented May 31, 2011 at 21:14