My hobby: randomly blaming Lennart Poettering for any Linux problems I have, regardless of systemd proximity.

[waltman@hachyderm.io]

@ryanc @xabean Are there still Linux problems which are *not* proximate to systemd anymore?

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@waltman @ryanc @xabean

Some are caused by his other projects.

I think he’s probably responsible for more people switching to FreeBSD than any other individual.

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@ryanc
Why stop there? It's probably his fault when a stop light malfunctions and creates a traffic jam that makes you late to work.

[boffbowsh@mastodon.me.uk]

@ryanc isn’t that Fedi’s collective hobby?

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@david_chisnall @waltman @ryanc @xabean
Counting the days until the people who make "disable Windows 11 AI"-scripts produce their own NetBSD distro with preloaded Wine.
(packages an older version of Wine, but was the first OS that said no to slopcode)

[charlotte@akko.chir.rs]

@ryanc is lennart poettering the todd howard of linux?

[spitfire@mastodon.de]

@ryanc likewise. and I always raise my fist in anger while yelling "poetteriiiing!!" like some saturday morning cartoon villian

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@ryanc

Narrator: the traffic light controller runs embedded Linux and uses systemd

[jbaggs@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc I need to print up a "Lennart Poettering broke my car" T shirt.

[scy@chaos.social]

@ryanc So, bullying. Your hobby is bullying.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@scy You clearly have a very different definition of "bullying" than I do.

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@david_chisnall @waltman @ryanc @xabean The Thomas Midgley of Linux.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@ryanc ::likes and subscribes::

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@ryanc Today I learned how to deal with userland services in a system on sysvinit (or anything init really) because screw all that.

I can still say it's Poettering's fault because guess why I'm having to switch to sysvinit? It wasn't just because I randomly wanted to see what it would be like...

[jbc@mathstodon.xyz]

@ryanc Truly the Theresa May of GNU/Linux

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@ryanc

SystemD gave my cat fleas

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@vonxylofon @david_chisnall @waltman @xabean that is an incredible burn

[elfin@mstdn.social]

@ryanc And PulseAudio ...

I approve of you hobby.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@nazokiyoubinbou consider runit

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@ryanc I mean, if I had a choice I'd lean towards OpenRC, but right now I need the least effort thing closest to a base distro, which is probably MX Linux which lets you choose sysvinit and has a lot of stuff (like Pipewire-Pulse) fixed to work with it.

But really, the biggest problem is just distros in general need to stop relying on systemd. Like even if they continue to use it, packages shouldn't be built to explicitly call it a dependency, should also support init, etc. That seems basic, but it just doesn't even occur to most to do such a minimal thing. So if one switches from systemd, a lot of stuff uninstalls and/or breaks on most distros.