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@rebeccawatson I think the last two words of that post, which obviously triggered the ban, is pretty disappointing and lazy as far as good insulting goes. I would have told the apologist to try to rub those two last brain cells floating around on life support in that soulless, empty black vacuum of abject despair he calls a cranium really freaking hard and put 2+2 together. And then I would say "But I bet my last paycheck on Kalshi that you won't, so at least either way something good happens."

@d1 @structuredsucc Debian isn't always the conservative distro everyone paints them to be. A perfect example is when they decided to adopt systemd when at the time only Red Hat and Arch used it. Their vote to adopt it was the catalyst for nearly every other major distro to adopt it. That's setting a trend, not being conservative.

Slackware is a more accurate example of conservatism in Linux.

@rl_dane @RootMoose basically, yeah. It was the minimally diplomatic choice because they knew there would be a backlash if they said "we're systemd-only and we won't support other inits at all".

@rl_dane @RootMoose I remember that. They voted to basically say "we support exploration of alternative inits, but we're not gonna do that work".

@RootMoose I'd like to hear some details on this, too. Stuff like implementing an independent fork of varlink and multiseat support would go a long way towards defanging the argument that "if you want feature X, systemd is the only game in town".