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Linux is still flexible. I am willing to pay for an OS that just works and I will accept a fair amount of opinionated software (like systemd or Ubuntu's snappy

Linux is still flexible. I am willing to pay for an OS that just works and I will accept a fair amount of opinionated software (like systemd or Ubuntu's snappy package format) if that makes it happen. I am a consumer who wants an OSX experience in the Linux world. And there are millions out there like me. Am I forcing you to buy in ? not at all - the beauty of Linux is that you can use LFS, Gentoo or Arch which allows you to customize and play with your particular set of philosophies. Not all opinionated software is malicious - at the end of the day, software is merely an expression of the person and their beliefs. And sometimes they just want to believe in one thing.

digi_owl 11y ago
LFS sure (though it is really going back to first principles), Gentoo at least for now (some there seem insistent on turning OpenRC into a Systemd clone), but Arch?! The distro that went systemd by "executive" decree, and basically pulled the "deal with it" meme as a response to complaints? And frankly recent history at both LFS and Gentoo shows how nasty systemd is. Gentoo forked udev to eudev, and LFS later adopted eudev, because after udev got merged with systemd every systemd release changed how to extract udev from the larger code blob. Heck, LFS now have effectively split in two. They are maintaining one document for "classic" Linux, and one for systemd Linux.