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Is the "Year of Linux" actually a trap?
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By getting the Debian deciding body to approve systemd a while back, for starters.
It's apparently very easy.
I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.
If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.
Devuan.
And Slackware, Gentoo, Artix and many others, yes.
All used profusely by hobbysts and evangelists, the kind of people with a lot of spare time to write bullshit online, and never ran more than 5 machines for more than a year with evolving operational requirements.
Got data on that, have you?
Usage and contributions data on debian and rhel, the vast majority uses systemd and does not complain about it.
Edit: since you probably don't care about people actually working with linux, a further datapoint is the steam hardware survey.
So, by your own words, everyone who uses systemd and doesn't complain is
so, again, data on this or just keyboard warrioring?
Don't bother answering, we both know the answer.
Bye.
It actually helps the discussion if I can understand your point, you might want to add a verb in your first part, I say this as a non english speaker so bear with me.
My data points are public info, I pointed you to where to find them, rtfg.