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After about a decade Linux on desktop is semi stable and semi secure thanks to Wayland and Systemd. You can stick to fiddling your way with sysv and x11 if you
by throwaway5833 1y ago
After about a decade Linux on desktop is semi stable and semi secure thanks to Wayland and Systemd.
You can stick to fiddling your way with sysv and x11 if you like. The world has moved on.
- weberer 1y agoThere are still various server distros not using systemd. I ran into it recently on a system deployed on Alpine.
- 9dev 1y agoAnd for every one of these, there tens of thousands that do.
- pezezin 1y agoIsn't Alpine only used as a base image for containers?
- msgodel 1y agoNo it runs well on hardware. I ran it as my primary OS for years. It actually has a few neat features that are only useful when booting into it like LBU. That was great for getting the last couple years out of my old macbook pro. The hard disk connector stopped working after the nth time I had to replace the little flex cable so I switched to running Alpine from a ram disk using LBU to handle changes to /etc.
- ryao 1y agoI use wayland with sysvinit and comments like this make me cringe. He was not even talking about wayland and you managed to inject this anti-X11 tirade into the conversion anyway. X11 works great for many people and if it were not for XWayland, Wayland would be unusable.
- dormento 1y ago> throwaway5833 Of course. At work, I use the system my employer provides, with systemd and gnome. At home, I use the one that gives me the most freedom, with sysvinit and x11. Such is the reality of life.
- nottorp 1y agoIf i didn't know there are some people out there who actually like systemd, I'd assume you're on IBM's payroll :)