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I'm pretty much abandoning linux due to systemd and the fact that a tiny group of people have basically forced it on everyone despite few people wanting it and
by jbb555 12y ago
I'm pretty much abandoning linux due to systemd and the fact that a tiny group of people have basically forced it on everyone despite few people wanting it and huge objections.
This might not be the end of linux but it's really really harming it.
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- Jedd 12y agoBy tiny, do you mean majority of distribution maintainers?
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- revmoo 12y agoSame here. With everything going on with government spying it is totally realistic to expect Systemd is being forced upon Linux to open up new entry points into the OS. This would have been a crazy conspiracy theory five years ago but it's the new reality.
- crististm 12y agogentoo still gives the option of openrc
- cssmoo 12y agoI'm not abandoning it because of systemd specifically but the whole Linux boot/init stuff is hell and the platform is death by a thousand papercuts when something goes snap. That's reason enough on its own. I recently had to rescue a CentOS 7 box with failed mdadm RAID1. Between grub, md, initrd, LVM and systemd it was three hours of hell. This was due to an md failure causing corruption on a mirror disk rather than a physical disk failure as well. Windows and FreeBSD with ZFS are beautiful in comparison. I've come to recommend those over Linux these days.
- digi_owl 12y agoRecommending Windows ahead of Linux says something...
- jethro_tell 12y agoWe've heard this argument time and time again, but the fact of the matter, is that there's a good chunk of people that really need these features. We may see a changing of the guard but I doubt the majority of installs are going anywhere.