> distros have adopted systemd and pulseaudio en masse. There must be buy-in for a reason There is, and this reason is not always on the merits of the software

> distros have adopted systemd and pulseaudio en masse. There must be buy-in for a reason There is, and this reason is not always on the merits of the software. I would like to add NetworkManager to the list of software that (used to) pain my existence. The case for including this were pretty much the same as PulseAudio, that other entities already had settled on it, in this case Gnome. So the fact that some of the developers were important members of the Gnome community sort of gave their creation a direct path into Red Hat and Ubuntu, who based their desktops on Gnome. Had they not been, the software would have had a much harder time getting included, and based on merits alone it would not have happened. That rubbed a lot of people the wrong way at the time, for some very good reasons.