I’m an Arch user. I check the diffs when I update a package. I won’t do anything as I’m obviously not compromised.

And then your auto-formatter removes them in a blink.

Your conspiracy myth is wrong, and if you actually care about what’s true, you can confirm what I say very easily for yourself:

Just go to the mailing list archives and forums and follow the decision making discussions of the time. E.g. Arch Linux. This will quickly and decisively convince you that “big tech” had nothing to do with it.

But you don’t care about the truth, do you? You just want the comfortable position of being able to look down on all the mainstream fools.

If you criticize something because of perceived bloat, maybe don’t make it the mouse in your metaphor.

And no, it’s a great init system that has all the features one wants. That’s why it ended up taking over: it was the first really good init system that introduced actual dependencies and so on.

These aren’t serious. Their mission statements are nothing but childish contrariness.

E.g. Artix has a “no true Scotsman” right in their tagline about “real” init system. Only 14 year old master debaters will attempt to deny that systemd is a “real” init system with a straight face.

LMAO, good one!

Nah, people just started using LLM assisted vuln discovery workflows and having early successes with them.

There will be diminishing returns.

You wrote

Because to you it’s virtually meaningless other than some weird nostalgia

responding to my comment. I didn’t take any side, let alone argued from with nostalgia

Can you not put words into my mouth?

Nobody knows what a “gimp” is supposed to be.

How is arguing for one side of the issue “not seeing the value of anyone else’s opinion”.

Yeah, these people never do their research. Its very easy to find the discussions and reasoning the devs had at the time.

That especially disqualifies the conspiracy idiots who come up with myths about Red Hat or Poettering or Microsoft or so puppeteering Linux into its dooooom

Nah, the issue is accidental corruption, different parsers doing things differently, stuff like that. Happens often with “mostly text but actually some structured data also” formats, doesn’t happen with formats that have well specified framing.

Because most people prefer it. Again: having a minority taste doesn’t mean you’re oppressed when there’s an option to have what you want.

Read. I’m saying that you lied, not that your preferences are bad.

Systemd doesn’t force you to use binlogs.

Can you add more fields? Is there no ambiguity in context switching? No breakage around whitespace?

If so, sure, that’s fine then.

WTF. Saying “it uses binlogs” as if that wasn’t a choice is just a lie. I called it out. Deal with it.

Right, that happened to me too.

And it’s a problem 100% unrelated to systemd, so I wouldn’t count it here.

That old load of bullshit again. You could swap out the logs if you want a shittier, less searchable (but text based) logging system. The rest can be countered in a similarly conclusive way, and has been repeatedly in the last decade or so.

Inform yourself before copy-pasting misinformation and misleading propaganda.

The KDE screenshot application is super nice though, what does flameshot have that it doesn’t?