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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Hard to read. At first I thought it was satire.

[–] GizmoLion@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The last several lines are so insanely unhinged, completely untethered from reality lol.

Also, when this guy learns about X11 vs Wayland he's doing to die of an aneurysm.

[–] AboyBboy@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ that author is insufferable.

[–] fxttr@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

He sounds like a bitter, stagnant, arrogant old man.

[–] _calm_bomb_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I couldn't understand exactly what the problem is.. and the writing style is infuriating. State your problem, then explain what you want!

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'." A check of the ebuild indicates that Firefox on Gentoo doesn't depend on systemd, elogind, udev, or even dbus. It isn't Firefox's fault if a given distro can't configure it and its dependencies properly (well, okay, it sorta is, because its configuration setup is complex and ugly, but . . .)

For $DEITY's sake, if you're going to be anti-systemd, do it for real reasons.

[–] orsetto@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The author of this article:

[–] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 1 points 1 year ago

People like that make me like systemd. Honestly, I see no issues and rarely have a problem with systemd. Shitposting about it is all well and good, but being an anti-systemd evangelist is tiring and weird. All these old heads can still just grab the kernel and build their own OS around it with whatever init they want.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

millennials

Do I really have to read past this word?

[–] words_number@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Until someone can provide actual, techological disadvantages of systemd over currently available, viable alternatives, this is an irrelevant culture war for me. I feel like some people made hating system-d a core element of their identity and personality.

I don't like so no one else is allowed to like seems to be rampant.

[–] nous@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like some people made hating system-d a core element of their identity and personality.

Basically this these days. It started out with people not liking change, not liking the author and miss-understanding what systemd is trying to do. Then latching onto some aspects of it and refusing to let go or change their minds at all.

The tragedy of systemd talk goes over a bunch of the common reasons (and counter points) about why people don't like systemd as well as the history of init systems.

[–] StudioLE@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should think about starting a GoFundMe to get the author the mental health support they so clearly need

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This post reads like a sysadmin tried to update to the latest Ubuntu LTS at work and systemd caused a C&A team to go aggro because they've never heard of it, and now said sysadmin has to maintain a couple of hundred 12.04 LTS installs by hand, backporting packages from 22.04.2 LTS just so the cutting edge software the userbase requires to do their jobs will run.

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article reads like the writer has untreated mental health issues. Like actually unhinged.

[–] Trebach@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The writer reminds me of Terry Davis, except not as bright.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This whole anti-systemd thing is so pathetic.

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 0 points 1 year ago

"This whole anti-Microsoft thing is so pathetic. Just use Windows."

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I may agree with him/her, I may not. But that's unreadable.