Can someone explain to me whats wrong with systemd? I'm not very well versed on init systems

I'm not a fan of systemD, but who even bothers with posix anymore?

If you want your program to work, compiled, out of the box on linux, freebsd, OSX, and openbsd you bother with it. Otherwise just use a toolkit.

Honestly, this seems the most likely scenario. Gnome and systemD are too tightly interconnected to have anything else as the plan at this point. That has both good and bad points to it, honestly.

I've been meaning to audit the thing for its value in digital forensics but I also want to learn programming by learning assembler for an IBM mainframe and taking it from there so I don't know when I'll get around to it.

The truth is systemD is meant to replace everything GNU in Linux and effectively do with it what Apple did with NetBSD. I knew this was coming when I started seeing the ratio of Macbooks shown in dev meetings skyrocket. These people cannot be trusted with Linux as they don't understand why the rest of us like it.

Gnome was a mistake

Probably. I honestly wish Red Hat would just fork and be done with it.

If you squint a bit they kinda sorta did, since we now have both GNOME 3 and MATE.

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