Orrrr I can use something else. Which I do. Something that respects the fact that my computer is in fact mine.

And like i said. It’d be fine if gnome was gnome… If it stayed in its fucking lane serving the people that like it.

But the gnome Devs have a lot of influence on how things like Wayland are taking shape, so their “let’s turn Linux into iPad” attitude does in fact affect me.

Because the point of Linux is I get to make it my own

If I wanted to use what the Devs tell me is the right setup and “just works”, I’d not own a computer at all. I’d just get an iPad, which has that appliance like “no options, just does what it’s made to do, works great under those constraints” thing going for it.

Gnome is very competently made except it’s made for a different genre of person to me, and their attitude towards customisation is outright disdainful. You install an extension or mess around in tweaks and gnome looks at you like you just used the salad fork for seafood.

I think it’s made for people who like Macs or sth.

Wouldn’t be a problem(people can use whatever makes them happy) if the gnome Devs shit attitude didn’t trickle outwards and harm customizability in other environments.

Tupã bless Brazil’s pix.

At least I can still buy porn from local furry artists.

No, but I’ll try to answer anyway:

• SystemD is large, it is a dependency for many things, it sort of takes over managing the entire OS, and a lot of Unix Philosophy Purists hate that about it because it goes against the idea of “one program does one thing, keep it simple”
• SystemD is inflexible and things must adapt to its way of doing things, not the other way around, and again, people don’t like that because Linux Users all have “don’t tell me what to do” as their core philosophy (even I’m like that, I just have different priorities on what I don’t want to be told about)
• Some people argue it slows things down. I don’t know. I never cared enough to find out. I will keep it that way because I personally have no interest.
• … The head developer, one Lennart Poettering, is a bit of a jerk.

That fourth one, I feel, is the real sticking point. Much like Pulseaudio (same dev), whatever merits OR defects it has as a computer program are entirely 100% irrelevant, people are just mad because the head dev posted asshole things online and that means he’s evil and everything he touches is retroactively shit.

Gay. Next question

Depends on how you feel about communists

As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.

So like, if you can’t stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you’re fine with that, don’t.