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is free software.
my understanding is that at some point we should finally give in, because at some point systemd is going to be good enough for everyone.
its not that its unsuitable for our needs, its that we are holding out. (like a woman that said no but a few more drinks and a few more times not taking no for an answer, and lennart will finally "get some" from us.)
well i hate to tell you lennart sweetie, you just aint my type. im not holding out, i just prefer other init--
this isnt about init, its about design. i prefer other designs altogether.
first of all, i prefer to deal with "vendors" that dont prefer to work on the premise that i wont have a choice. and systemd fans are very fond of implying i dont have one. that means theyre the wrong people to associate with.
pushy, presumptuous b***ards can go and play. why would i want to deal with such d*****bags?
but also, systemd (like windows) is a piece of software i dont need. youd think after i went to the trouble of getting past "bios" features designed to lock me into an os they thought i just couldnt live without, that an "init system" (its a whole suite, face it) designed to do the same isnt up my alley. but still they think i want the thing.
what systemd did from 2014 to 2015 was pick up my ant farm and shake it as hard as it could. thats the OPPOSITE of why i used debian. i used debian precisely because it never did that. so d*****bags ruined debian. fine, i dont use it anymore.
free software is about freedom, and freedom usually implies choice (a choice of kernels, but not init systems? really?) and if they take the choice out of debian, that just means i will choose something other than debian while people laugh at the fact that i even care if there are alternatives. of course its because i dont understand how great systemd is.

in fact just the other day, i was assisting some poor individual who thought they wanted debian 8.
install went fine, then we went to restore files from usb.
oops:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... -in-debiannow if i go back 11 years, puppy linux with the 2.x kernel could read from vfat-- along with EVERY SINGLE DISTRO ive tried in the past 11 years.
but not debian 8. the kernel modules were there, it just couldnt load them.
dont have that with refracta. dont have that with devuan. dont have that with librepup.
but rebooting fixed it. how sad is is that debian has entered an era where the solutions are the same as windows?
i dont know if thats related to systemd, or if linus just started taking code from kay sievers again. but that sort of comical sh** never happened until systemd was debians top priority. perhaps its too distracted raising red hats marketshare and playing with microsoft to carry out its mission of delivering quality software.
i dont know, i dont pay much attention to debian anymore. i only deal with it when i have to-- not much, and thats nice.
you guys be sad all you want, reboot to get basic features working, and tell us we are the ones that are sad.
we arent lonely. we just dont want your systemd***.
and if you think i hate d***, i dont. bruce perens has one, and hes alright. ive got one too, and (no matter who tells me lennart wants to run systemd on it) it doesnt run systemd, either.
some people are into systemd, i get it, okay, a lot of people. it takes all kinds to make the world. 2 girls, 1 init?

the original red hats.