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What I find so off-putting about the systemd advocacy is the combination of a sort of learned helplessness ("we don't have anything else", "Red Hat forces it")
by shrubble 7y ago
What I find so off-putting about the systemd advocacy is the combination of a sort of learned helplessness ("we don't have anything else", "Red Hat forces it") combined with an argument that it is inevitable, anyways.
It reminds me of the Windows NT advocacy back in the late 90s, that "Unix is Dead" and that Microsoft's invincibility made it inevitable, anyways.
Because a bunch of people did not agree with this view, we ended up with something quite different than the roadmap that Microsoft had for us.
- antientropic 7y agoEhm. What systemd advocates use arguments like "we don't have anything else" or "Red Hat forces it"? Those are the arguments of systemd detractors.
- baked_ziti 7y agoThey're literally all over this very discussion. I am a systemd detractor and I happily use Void with runit, so I would really never say that we don't have anything else. I don't know what the magical features are of the ever growing giant squid that is systemd that people swear they can't live without, but I haven't encountered them.