I guess if youre not from the US theyre “foreign”

that’s fine, systemd is my current one too, it’s great w/ NixOS tooling, it’s just kind of unfair to handle systemd criticism by talking solely of its phased alternatives, makes the discussion seem like systemd is the only possible option

please try another service manager that is not 20 years old before developing your opinion on this. you might hate it or whatever, but it’s better than to keep saying “systemd is better than sysvinit!!” quietly ignoring the actual systemd alternatives people are using that are not pre-historic. dinit/runit are ones I’ve used previously and were very good and did the same things systemd did for me as a desktop user

That is less of a hard-dependency on bash than bash being the default bourne shell for most systems, lots of programs depend on /bin/sh, which can be configured to be any bourne-compatible shell.

Linux being monolithic doesn’t warrant other parts of the system to be also be. Linux also has very a relatively stable ABI which allows for decoupling and you already see some projects like Asterinas leverage it to build an alternative kernel that is still compatible with Linux userspace stuff.

Having a direction is not mutually exclusive to having a decoupled system. One of the core aspects for engineering systems is being as decoupled as possible. If you think the only ‘decoupling’ Linux has is desktop environments and higher-level stuff, I cannot truly believe you have tried to tweak your system very much, and that’s perfectly fine, just don’t assume that everything has to be tightly-coupled just because you don’t see a point yourself.

I say this having already used and daily-driven systemd alternatives for years, namely Artix with runit and dinit, and they are perfectly capable and faster, boot times were way faster. Sometimes I’ve had to write manually some service files, but it was fine. Choice is good, it’s frustrating seeing people actively speak against it when it is possible to have it without sacrificing usability.

your stance on AI is canonically right and I appreciate this very much

Besides obviously being Meta pushing for these, people should start paying attention to the politicians pushing them.

We should not forget these names.