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There’s legitimate criticism of systemd and I do understand that people can hate it.
Anyways, systemd is so nice to use. Even more with nixos.
A lot of people suddenly talking about NixOS lately but literally the only news I’ve seen about it in a while was that the maintainers are Slopping with AI Code.
Is there an article on this I can read? I was about to start looking into trying Nix and that’s kinda disappointing to hear
I might be exaggerating based on the little I’ve seen, particularly this post LINK which has a very misleading title, but the number of packages for AI integration to NixOS and forks for Agentic OS and workflows, the amount of support (real or otherwise) for AI in the NixOS communities, and articles like this one: LINK, would be a hard sell to tell me were all coincidence.
Thanks for the link. Might put me off Nix a bit. I may look into comparing some of the other immutable distros like Fedora’s. Idk I avoided them early on, but I’ve had to spend a lot of time fixing shit lately and was considering a change.
Have you tried CachyOS? It’s built on Arch but it’s a lot easier to get into, let’s you pick a desktop environment such as KDE Plasma or GNOME in the installation, the install media itself is a portable OS.
Definitely good to keep an open mind while you shop around for your next distro.
Recently there was a hacker issue with the AUR repos, but most of the packages you need are likely already on the official CachyOS package search without requiring an AUR package.
Systemd and Wayland have become ragebait for some people.
Systemd is stable and can get the job done, I don’t love how it does it, but I accept that it’s a reasonable choice.
Something need/s/ed to replace X11. The fact that I still can’t autohotkey in Wayland is fucking insane. 9/10 of my current issues in Linux are Wayland-related. We’re being corralled into wayland as distros drop X11 and I don’t have time to keep chasing that fox.
Of all the people who have incredibly strong opinions about not-so-incredibly important things, the virulently anti-systemd crowd are among the ones that baffle me the most.
The real problem with systemd is figuring out what’s is or isn’t part of systemd…
That’s easy: If it’s a service reasonably expected to be present on most desktop systems, it’s part of systemd or will eventually be.
I hear they will work on a display server next called waylanD or something /s
Why do so many people think it’s a good thing??
Because it’s a good project, extremely well documented, which tries to make administering linux system easy and predictable.
I don’t particularly hate systemd, but when they said they are considering incorporating age verification stuff I switched to void.
Good news is that systemd is not incorporating age verification just like they are not incorporating name verification.
Both name and birth date are just userdb fields with no verification at all.
It’s popular to hate systemd. Just as it’s popular to hate PHP. It makes people feel like they’re part of an “elite group” that are above these things. Most of the time, people can’t even explain why they hate it. Just ask someone why he hates systemd and in 95% of all cases, you won’t get a straight answer, except, of course: “It ViOlAtEs LiNuX pHiLoSoPhY” yes timmy and how does that affect you while browsing and playing games, because that’s all you do on your PC.
I’m not saying that there are no reasons to dislike systemd for some people. There might be a handful of them who genuinely dislike it and have justified reasons for it. However, an overwhelming majority of the people that hate it don’t even have a fucking clue what it is, let alone why it’s dislikeable, they just read on twitter or reddit that it sucks. And that’s it. It’s a bit like a big streamer saying: “Game XYZ is shit” and a majority of that streamers following will think its shit.