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Nazo@itsfoss I'm still completely in shock that one person in systemd has decided arbitrarily to do this, is just pushing PRs through all over the place, and pretty much only has Claude to decide whether or not to approve them. Any opposition gets silenced with the threads just being closed because they're too inconvenient to moderate even though this is a really really big decision that affects... practically everything Linux...
Honestly, systemd was already way out of scope. It's pretty much universally hated and it keeps taking it upon itself to do various things it shouldn't (like adding DNS handling for some reason. Why does something whose only purpose is to handle init and service starting/stopping running its own DNS handling?)
Time for systemd to go.
0x0@0x0 @itsfoss Yeah, but the biggest problem is like 95% of the distros out there are built around systemd. A lot of things aren't even setup to work right without it. For example, Pipewire-Pulse and similar services aren't even setup to work that way. (MX Linux has its own implementation, but I think they setup a .desktop file for the DE to run or something? It's probably not 100% reliable, especially if you ever log into something else, but it's getting me by ok on a single user system.)
I have to figure out how to fix cdemu. Whatever it's doing, gcdemu freaks the F out and uses almost 40 watts of CPU power until I close the seizure-inducing freakout-mode icon. (I'll have to manually make a service?)
I do hope everyone see this as a time to switch, but until they do it will hurt
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#Slackware, @Devuan, and #Antix are free by design.
#Gentoo, to me, had the best approach: gives you choice of init system.
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#Slackware, @Devuan, and #Antix are free by design.
#Gentoo, to me, had the best approach: gives you choice of init system.
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@0x0 @itsfoss Yes I am aware some do. That's why I mentioned one that does and said 95%, not 100%.
Unfortunately, the other 95% are heavily built around it.
And then, as I said, problems arise because so is a lot of software.
Options existing is great, but they're so underutilized and undersupported that right now, systemd has a lot of power in the Linux world. And that is a problem.
Linux can indeed, as a whole, move away fairly quickly if people put in the effort. But will they? You'd be surprised how many things just capitulate when a bit of effort might be involved in a thing. My bet is what we will see is a bunch deciding what it does right now is too small to fight and just let it happen, then it grows in increments over time, each too small to fight...