That’ll do it. The work might be impressive, but why care about a project that has one purely spite-driven goal that makes no technical or social sense?

It uses real init systems

What a completely childish tagline. Even if there was any merit to all the systemd hate, calling it “not a real init system” is absurd.

They stopped supporting GNOME based desktops and treat that in the most “sour grapes” way imaginable …

Gesaffelstein goes hard, I agree.

Not in my experience. Granted that was mostly Reddit, but I often read entire threads about this, with almost nobody coming up with reasonable criticism.

I guess that was different on moderated bug trackers and so on?

topgrade

*paru

Oh I’m sure there was valid critique, but at the time it was completely hidden under a pile of made-up conspiracy bullshit about red hat being the devil or so, or plain wrong assertions like “it’s monolithic” or “it forces you to use binary logging”.

If the debate would have been about technical merits, maybe one of the other init systems would have won by being slightly better, but systemd’s detractors prevented that really well by making the public “debate” a compete farce.

Wayland has to overcome more real problems than systemd (because X11 was a giant monolith of compatibility hacks that everybody used, as opposed to a hundred piles of messy shell scripts that was SYSV init). But it has no alternatives that could possibly have more technical merit; I can’t even remember the thing Ubuntu announced for a hot minute.

I have the opposite experience. Multi monitor setup for my was always a half broken hassle on X11 and just works on Wayland.

Maybe also some undead refugees from the “systemd hate” hill or something.

You mean the smell that starts after like a week unless the corpse is directly exposed to the sun?

You can also switch between all of the ones you named using ostree rebase or so, which is pretty rad

Hmm, when a car has problems, you go to someone who fixes that for you. People under 60 usually don’t do that for PCs.

I don’t recommend Arch to newbies, but I do prefer it because it’s more robust: other distros patch stuff to make it easier, but those patches mean things are farther from the tested upstream version. Arch doesn’t do that as much so I run into fewer bugs.

But this view might be outdated. I just remember that before 2017 (when I installed my current Arch system) I constantly had problems with dist-upgrades in Ubuntu

You might just have learned more about how stuff works by now. Arch is very much “you need to make every choice manually, but then you’ve seen what choices exist”

Funny meme btw lolololo

… why are you like that?

Mint is still on X11, pretty much all other distos switched over to Wayland by now, which works much better with multi-monitor setups.

There’s a subforum in the mint forums about this, and this is the reason why I don’t recommend mint for newbies anymore.

Mint is behind the times with this one: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=266&sid=988182d121dabb7be8085b31e8d3e6d1

Other distros have switched to Wayland long ago.

Multi-monitor setups on Wayland are much less fragile, including different scaling and refresh rates.

Our AVR (audio video receiver, aka home theater amplifier) can be turned on via home assistant.

Felt magical the first time I turned it on by clicking a button.

I like the heading styles! The tildes are unusual but the reasoning is sound!

I think the “controversy” is just tribalism. I’ve never once witnessed a case of any of the negative adjectives thrown at the Rust community. They’ve always taken exceedingly fair and good-faith approaches to discussing any critique of the language.

Their snark is reserved for the weird “anti-woke” crowd that hates Rust for some reason.

I just use nushell’s builtins instead of wrangling with IFS and bash idiosyncrasies. It’s been years since I’ve corrupted data by parsing text wrong.

But even if someone doesn’t want that: apart from using it in legacy scripts, grep is just a strictly less useful ripgrep these days, no?

My people!