If you know, you know.
The “systemd devs” are anyone with the cashe to contribute to it. Yes, you need to be competent dev for your merges to be accepted, unlike in the virus-infested AUR.
But systemd can be forked if you don’t trust said devs. You’d be in the minority though because the majority of distros out there chose to adopt systemd, because it is that good.
Omg shut up. Nobody controls Systemd, it’s open source.
Right.
Not taking a stance is actually taking a stance, as in saying “we will comply as soon as we’re asked to.”
Which is fine to do, I just wish people stopped pretending the mainstream distros are resisting doing something that is clearly unpopular, when in reality they already sided with the law. It’s very different from what AntiX did.
Love nixOS (my daily driver) but I wouldn’t call it obscure. It seems to be becoming as popular as Arch for people interested in experimental distros.
Proton and Tita aren’t entirely free either, 500MB is just 1-2 years of emails and after that you’ll start paying if you want to keep your mailbox.
Thank you for the thorough technical explanation, it is clear there are challenges for devs and I understand why the pushback exists now.
As an end user these are things I haven’t felt, are essentially invisible to me so I never felt the need to run away from systemd.
Thanks again.
Is anybody surprised lol have you seen how he acts on LinkedIn? A guy who was lucky to strike gold now thinks he’s hot shit. Its embarrassing.
It’s not really mandatory, but I take your point.
I guess it’s the choice between many minor programs running in tandem, potentially only held together by a few maintainers, or an init system that unifies all those programs under one flag, with multiple maintainers including corporations, but the chance for it to get enshittified.
I personally have no choice of init system since I use NixOS. But I also don’t necessarily think the death of the personal computer will come from an init system, it will sooner come from hardware becoming unavailable/too expensive for individuals to buy (basically what we are seeing happen now).
Okay, other than “I believe it’s against the Unix Philosophy” and “hypothetically it will become bloated”, is there anything else worth knowing?
I should have clarified that the list above only makes sense if you just want your machine to work because atomic distros aren’t great to tinker with (except NixOS), but let’s face it, moist people are not tinkerers do what they need is exactly what atomic distros offer.
Waiting for Motorola compatibility to come out! I had a pixel before and I didn’t like it, too heavy, horrible body-to-screen ratio, huge phone too. Plus it’s Google.
It’s insane that it’s come to this. Europe should have decoupled from Us dependence a long time ago. Better late than never, I guess.
I used to be upset about this phenomenon until I realized Social Media is full:
All due to screen addiction. So while it is tempting to reduce everything to bots, trolls, or mustache-twirling villains who won’t let us have nice things, the reality is we humans too tend to misclick things. 😶🌫️
I don’t get it, what about the gitignore reveals he’s vibecoding?
Not to mention they look dogshit on GNOME. Fonts look so blue try you’re better off gauging your eyes out, it’s less painful.
I keep saying this I hope the Motorola that gets release with GrapheneOS (or at least is compatible with it) is the thinkphone. I’ll be so happy using both and announce to the world I’m a chronically online nerd XD
Not to mention, RTfM is not always possible for some distros like NixOS where the documentation is weaker than for other more mainstream distros.
I was gonna say the same thing.
For most beginners who just want their PC to work, the obvious choice should be Mint for older hardware, and Universal Blue’s Fedora-based images (Bluefin or Aurora depending on the preferred desktop).
Of course, since OP mentioned NixOS that is an option as well. But it should be the stable version, and it is not beginner friendly like the other two.
Right XD what a dogshit way of writing that title.