> This does not however mean that I must silently accept their bad choices. But there are proper places to discuss this issue with them, and HN is totally not

> This does not however mean that I must silently accept their bad choices. But there are proper places to discuss this issue with them, and HN is totally not one of those. > Sometimes people you respect excercise poor judgement. This is one of those cases. Sure, but have you considered that the one exercising poor judgement in this case may be you? I don't know which distro you're using, but Debian has extensively discussed the issue and the first tech CTTE resolution made lots of valid technical points in favour of systemd. For sure it's not an obviously bad choice, and if your maintainers have chosen to ship it they may have valid reasons to do so. Not to mention that's still entirely possible to avoid systemd for whatever reason, at least if you're using Debian it's trivial. > Feedback is a thing. You're giving it here. Why shouldn't I give it to the distros that certainly are trying to force systemd on me? Right, but I'm here trying to give feedback to you for your actions in this thread. You're here giving feedback on HN to people that probably don't read HN, and doing so with a rather inflammatory tone. If you want to give feedback to your distro maintainers, please get in touch with them in the appropriate channels (IRC, mailing lists) and ask them their reasons, but please first check if they haven't already stated those, one can just get annoyed if every person in the world keeps asking stuff that has been answered countless times.