Meme, from top to bottom: (Wayland appears) This is the death of the Linux desktop! (SystemD appears) This is the death of the Linux desktop! (Gnome makes massive changes) This is the death of the Linux desktop!
Linux desktop in 2025, having died all the time: over 4.5% marketshare (Michael Jackson as zombie in the background).
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's the first time I hear systemd [...] were spelling the death of [...] linux

Where've you been? We've been expressing concern about its badly-built badly-architected metastatic creep for a decade of dwindling choice and competition as it slowly forced out dissent and clued concern.

Now it's eaten autofs, DNS, cron, NTPd, and replaced them with shitty clones, and has carefully eroded our ability to recover from this mess.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    First, I said "the init process". The systemd project reinventing the wheel at every occasion is half garbage half "yeah, it's not horrible, but we're going to iron it out again for the next decades" level of horror. You won't have to convince me of that. And don't get me started on "binary" logs that sometimes takes dozen of seconds to just show up when requested. But the management of services is an overall improvement over scripts stitched together.

    I'm well aware of these discussions.

    But systemd management, and overall presence, is not something most people would care about. From a user perspective, the system boots, and things works (mostly). To non admin user, running a systemd system or a sysvinit system or whatever is irrelevant.

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