The problem is obeying in advance

Linux power-users tend to have strong opinions about two things: distribution and systemd. The bazaar of distributions means competing implementations or different perspectives end up expressed through the curation of the packaged software. systemd ended up so contentious because it’s a decent piece of technology which suffers from persistent scope creep that became a foundational component in a lot of distributions. The drama du jour is that systemd is somehow implicated in “age verification laws.”