This centralization of Linux worries me
It shouldn’t. Linux users are like cats. The harder you try to herd them in one direction, the more directions they find to go. Just because they all happen to be in one place at one particular time doesn’t mean they will suffer any obligation to stay there the moment someone decides they want them to.
Linux users are like cats. The harder you try to herd them in one direction, the more directions they find to go.
This comparison genuinely made me laugh because it’s so true. 🤣
Meow. I mean… exactly.
Sadly I just dont think this is true. For now non systemd distros work fine but eventually if this course doesn’t change you’ll be heavily inconvenienced at the best and downright struggling at the worst if you choose to not use it I fear.
That’s because systemd is just good, if it stops being or something better comes along, people will move. There’s no loyalty or entrapment here. This would be bad if a company did it with proprietary software, because then the company could lock people in… this is just nothing like that.
Right, I don’t think its actually ‘bad’ in anyway centralization is convienient! I just think its overall terrible for the users. While jumping ship obv can happen every hour spent on developing one option means that get rid of it as you have more systems to remake.
Yes, but the centralization runs so much deeper! We should ditch the centralized linux kernel and create at least 10 completely new kernels that are barely compatible to each other but will ensure our freedom and provide choice to the community!
BSD has entered the chat.
That Hurds 😜
Why? Systemd is open source.
Coincidentally, today I removed systemd from my laptop (Debian Trixie.) It was reasonably easy. I booted from a USB drive into a shell through debian’s “rescue” mode and typed plausible-looking apt commands until it worked. For some reason it didn’t create /etc/inittab and I made a typo when I tried to do it myself, but other than that no problems. Differences noticed so far that a normal user would care about: none. If nothing goes wrong I guess I’ll do the same on my desktop at home this weekend, because why not.
Nothing against systemd, but I think it’s valuable to continue having other options and it was fun to see that it’s still pretty easy to use them (maybe harder if you’re a GNOME user, idk.)
I find it extremely hard to believe that worked, let alone left you with a bootable system, let alone properly working.
I was surprised as well. I found the instructions at debian.org somewhat confusing, and I’m not sure if they’re completely comprehensive or accurate — but they were the most useful reference I found and provide a good idea of what it’s like.
You know, just maybe…this whole doomsaying about systemd running everything on a Linux system is a bit overblown?
NixOS is the only thing that made systemd a reasonable tool for me.
I do not like the entire paradigm of how it works.
I love NixOS, but I hate how coupled to systemd it is.
I tried to make a microVM image of NixOS the other day, using tini as the init system. Large parts of the core NixOS lifecycle simply don’t work at all without systemd.
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Guix is your friend with an infinitely better language
OH NO, they must be devastated!
That sucks for me as a Guix user. I haven’t managed to package a GUI app I’m using from Flatpak so it was a nice escape hatch for me.
AppImages stay winning
Well this sucks. I use Flatpak all the time, so I guess this means I’m going to be even more dependent on systemd than I was before.
I don’t hate systemd as much as most of its detractors; in fact I like how easy it makes it to manage services, but with the age
verificationattestation controversy, and the performance improvements I witnessed switching my Pi-Hole box from Debian to Alpine, these things have caused me to question my use of systemd.
