Comment Re:Who watches this crap? (Score 1) 135
Similar background, but since 1991, totally agree with your post, many of the older teenagers who want to "write games" are artists, not coders.
What you're claiming is at odds with the real situation.
The people who are most against systemd are the serious, professional, often long-time Linux system administrators who have to provision and maintain production Linux systems.
Maybe it's okay if systemd and PulseAudio fuck up your single Ubuntu workstation. That's not a luxury that these admins have. They need their Linux systems to work reliably all of the time.
This level of stability was very achievable in the past, before a distro like Debian adopted systemd. But now that it has, its quality has dropped off precipitously. Yes, this completely unnecessary drop in quality will make responsible people very angry!
There is no conspiracy, like you've convinced yourself that there is. There are just many experienced sysadmins who need Linux distros that work. With all of the major Linux distros switching to systemd lately, and the many problems this has caused, these sysadmins are left in a bad position.
They can't wait a decade for the problems to be sorted out. They need to act now. Many are doing something they probably should have done years ago, and are moving to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Some are even moving to Windows, as unfortunate as that is.
The robustness and reliability of Linux systems aren't "pet needs". They're the very factors that will, if ignored, result in Linux losing its current position. A robust and reliable Linux kernel is useless if the init system and userland stack running on top of it is full of problems. The entire package just won't be useful.
I'm not sure it's precisely that, developers want systems to improve so they can add new features and capabilities, but if I'm an admin then fundamentally all I really care about is reliability and uptime. For them a perfect OS never changes at all outside of bug fixes.
Init might be a massive PITA but it's a PITA they've already got working and trust. Their hatred of systemd might be based on very legitimate stability concerns, but it also might be a very rational response to a change which brings a minimal but costly risk, and an almost non-existent benefit.
However, current Linux admins are not the only people affected. Linux users, developers, and future admins will benefit from an improved init system.
Btw, I'm skeptical that those admins will actually switch OS's for precisely the same reliability concerns that make them oppose systemd. This is probably the same reason Redhat is able to push systemd on their own customer base.
Seriously, if you have enough cash and connections to even think about starting a company, or even doing one of these new-fangled "startups", then you're better off than 95% of the country and better of than 99% of the world.
By your comment I take it that you care about nothing but money?
Shame they didn't cut this AC's cable...
The irony is that it could be seen as "karma" that Jobs basically committed "suicide by woo", refusing to treat his cancer with any recognized scientific technique for most of a year and instead trying pretty much every technique in the book popular among the sort of person who typically believes in karma.
So perhaps all of the woo stuff actually works, but it plays in with the laws of karma
I read that in the sense of, "Let's say that I'm in the position of being a general manager", as a hypothetical rather than something to be taken literally.
There was really only one proper link for that post.
I'm glad you used it.
If you don't want someone's Windows 10 passing on your password, Microsoft has two solutions;
Not a problem for me, they missed the obvious third solution. Never ever use Outlook, Don't use Skype and don't use Facebook. Problem solved without having to change my SSID. And, of course, there is a fourth solution but that involves using Linux.
"Give a woman a child" - You're an asshole. A rational man doesn't give his wife a child, they share one. My daughter was the best thing that ever happened to me and I don't regret any 'inconvenience'. I pity any partner you end up with because you obviously only see them as that wallet you referred to.
Not only that, but no artificial limit to g. No pilot to keep conscious.
You now need to write a drone AI that you trust with lethal weaponry or a remote control system that's unjammable.
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein
