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It's not SystemD itself that's the problem; it's just technically terrible, but, as you say, it's open source. A lot of open source software is terrible but pop
by craigsmansion 7y ago
It's not SystemD itself that's the problem; it's just technically terrible, but, as you say, it's open source. A lot of open source software is terrible but popular.
It's Debian violating their social contract that was the problem for me.
What the vast majority of distributions do is irrelevant, a lot of them are chasing popularity or have a proprietary interest in having a "unified platform", but I had come to expect better from Debian. There is really no longer a "reality of that shift" to reflect on, since the SystemD problem has been more or less fixed: there are now debian-based distributions to upgrade to. If other people want to run that dumpsterfire of cowboycode on their computers, that's fine by me.
- the_why_of_y 7y ago> It's Debian violating their social contract that was the problem for me. Which clause of the social contract did Debian violate? https://www.debian.org/social_contract https://www.debian.org/social_contract
- craigsmansion 7y ago"Our priorities are our users and free software" Debian ranked SystemD adoption over their users, since it broke users' computers, even though there were viable alternatives available that would have not broken these systems. I still like Debian, but I'm not letting them (directly) near my systems again.
- the_why_of_y 7y ago"Breaking user's computers" sounds like a bug of severity "critical", which would block the release. Can you point me to your bug report?