i agree with the sentiment, but i suspect that what people want from their iphones. ie. they just want it to work.

any place where you can get electronics; this tablet almost the same size as an iphone 17 pro max

aren’t those called tablets? lol

be sure to carry a change a clothes with you and lube because they’re going to have protective gear on and, even then, they going to jump out of the way and let it fall all over your clothes. lol

careful! advocating against systemd in this community will get you branded for heresy. lol

i dug through my downloads because it bugged me that i couldn’t remember and it was ubuntu 24.04, kubuntu 25.10, fedora-kde 43, and mint 22.2 cinnamon that didn’t give the option and it was back in august.

i was under the same impression as well; but no, all of the distros i tried on my new laptop (various different ubuntu flavors and some others i don’t remember) didn’t have it.

i’m capable to doing it myself, but fedora’s installer let me simply check a box for it.

overlap exists between Linux users and Hannah Montana fans.

the original fan base is now middle aged; there’s overlap simply for existing. lol

Funny enough I went to Fedora because it did all the pre-configuration to setup disk encryption unlike all of the Debian based distros I tried; not even Ubuntu had it.

why the mop? lol

… to satisfy the average dumbass using it

we all have to start somewhere

op was asking about linux specifically and neither sysvinit, upstart, openrc, or runit did more than booting

you must have missed this part:

it was criticized for overreach (as in it did more than its predecessor did).

systemd is only used to initiate booting of a system afaik and, in the past, it was criticized for overreach (as in it did more than its predecessor did).

now-a-days, it seems to be criticized for pre-complying with big brother like laws like age verification.

Also we’ve had attempts to microslopify Linux before, by the hands of Canonical and Red Hat.

the most recent example was done by the american gov’t instead of corporations when the kernel maintainers group kicked out russian developers.

bsd was originally a calfornia thing and california had made the first step to this reality; i bet big changes are coming their way.

i 100% agree with you and i’m sharing this to warn you that there are plenty in this are that will balk at the message that you’re trying to share.

don’t let them deter you; most of them are visitors from captured origins and will refuse to accept it as a result.

you’re probably best served by thrifting a recent wireless router that’s supported by freshtomato, openwrt or pfsense and doing your network stuff on that.

that’s a FANTASTIC idea! i’m gonna go do that.

thank you.

it’s worse when everything is manual because they don’t “trust scripts” due to them not fully understanding what automation means.