[mdlug] Big brother gives M$ a 10 out of 10

[Steve Litt]

Jonathan Billings said on Sun, 26 May 2024 16:46:08 -0400

>okay.  You don’t like systemd, and you are welcome to use non-systemd
>Linux platforms. There’s no one forcing you to use it.

Boom! There's Halloween code all over the place to make replacing it
with another init system a Herculean task.

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>I get that something being incredibly popular makes it hard to find
>alternatives.

Not at all. Even though Vim and Emacs have overwhelming mind share in
the free software community, you still have many other editor choices.
This is because Vim and Emacs did not sabotage the ability to use other
editors. The Systemd galaxy does.

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>> As an example, since I build my own machines from components, I know
>> exactly what hardware is present in my system and consequently I can
>> create a convenient set of static device nodes.  There is no need to
>> probe hardware at each boot (indeed, it would be a stupid exercise).
>>  
>
>That’s noble of you, but not particularly scalable or user friendly.
>Surely you understand that building a distro where you have to run
>mknod as root when you want to plug in a USB drive, you might find
>that some people might find that a bit onerous?

Sure others would find it onerous to mknod or whatever to make devices
like we did in 1999, so they should default to a udev solution. But it
should be a udev that doesn't depend on systemd. So far, I can use
systemd's udev on my non-systemd computer, but such abilities keep
disappearing.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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