What happened to the debian family?

-large filesize
-practically needs multiple daemons running at once
-depends on dbus

You mean it's big and that's scary. What's the point in using a multi-user multi-ring operating system then?

Why exactly do these things depend on systemd?

[citation needed]

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See? I told you you lot would just spout nonsense you read on the chans.

It's not as simple and easy to use as FreeBSD's rc.

Do you know literally anything about software development at all?

The devs can not be trusted to make sane decisions, it's as simple as that.

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