You are not wrong. IBM management paralleled in the same cash-grab and exit C-suite functions that has consumed Redhat. That is why the merger happened.
Soon, Purple Hat should be charging for systemd and hopefully other corpos and organizations will move back to sanity.
systemd nightmare needs to end. Too many broken garbage from malicious actors within the opensource community.
Just as an experiment, get every distro to have at least 2 or 3 SysVInit / runit / rc.init alternatives, and you will see a MASS Migration back to SysVInit. Bash/shell script init functions were really dead simple and almost unbreakable/hackerproof.
Systemd really needs to be thrown in the garbage dumps of history so we can finally have a UNIX-like boot back.
Dude. Lemmy is also another place where minorities don’t respect or even acknowledge the majority preferences.
I would rather let people be whoever they want to be in their own privacy and not try to rub it in everyones faces.
I wish Nokia N900 / N950 with Maemo or Meego OS. And full opensource, full MPL or MIT licensed.
I truly wish SailfishOS could be that replacement but I’ve been burnt too many times already.
Now only to be found on LG TVs. :-(
That too NT 5.x ! I wish we had stuck with Windows 2000 Professional.
Young whipper snappers can run for the hills since all the elders are going to become Linux experts :-D
Go install Windows you ankle-biters! Get off my lawn! :-D
Hence let the friend run Windows. End of story.
Your suggestion is not wrong despite people not liking it. OpenSuse Leap or TW and Fedora even SilverBlue can be good for Linux newbies.
I have got both OpenSuse Leap and Fedora 37 on old-people systems and they are happy to browse using Chrome and edit using Libreoffice. etc.
Windows or Linux is as much suitable for the people who can use it and need it. No need to force anyone to use anything.
The Brits flew night raids deep into Europe, dropped their payloads and returned home. The Tech definitely DID EXIST.
Compared to barrels of crude oil, I am sure a SINGLE Block of Aluminium can be reused more than 1000X times with no environment damage.
Corpo sabotage of opensource. So many community projects are under the thumb of corpo insiders. It was a “cash-grab” a way to shoehorn and takeover an essential but mostly unchanged and stable Init system. And they shimmed that into everything they could ram it into with no options or alternatives.