Its detractors rarely comment on technical merits/shortcomings, 99% of the time they only throw "pid1", "monolitic", "poettering blight", "binary logs" and "they took our jerbs^wkludgy init scripts!" around.
So..in your world, pid1 bloat, monolithic design, binary logs and getting rid of simplicity/flexibility achieved by shell scripts are
Face.. meet palm.
For anyone truly looking for a secure, minimal and clean *nix system as a replacement for Slackware, I can't recommend NetBSD enough.
Seconded that from my NetBSD machine.
You're talking about the most outer frill of the most outer presentation layer of the most outer shell...
Which, because the basic stuff is done so badly, is a nightmare to implement.
You're either trolling or absolutely clueless to a degree which isn't even funny anymore.
To stick with the example of how the timezone is set, it's a file. It's called
The rest of your comment is equally dumb:
I suppose real users do their 3D modelling or photo editing on the command line rather than using Fisher-Price graphical utilities.
Here's some rare insight: For inherently graphical tasks, a GUI is appropriate. News at 11.
Leave room for a sleeping bag
And place earplugs somewhere around that spot.
If we could get our homes switched to DC, then we could have these without the extra electronics in them.
Nah. You'd still need a constant-current source, LEDs aren't Ohmic.
provide everyone with a circa-2010 American standard of living
You can't be serious. This isn't desirable at all.
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