impermanence forces you to be intentional with your system, where files are persisted, which is great for: hygiene like feeling like the computer was freshly formatted on each boot; using NixOS as intended by keeping things declarative (in other words, “nixmaxxing”); security also, to a lesser extent tbh, but it’d be protecting against malware nesting at impermanent paths

As a student, it was extremely annoying to browse through subjects and find what I needed to do. Really had a bad time with their UX.

I was forced to endure it for some time in the past. Would not wish it for my worst enemy to use Moodle

xdg-desktop-portal is the only thing that really gave me anger

from what i’ve seen it still barely works and is borderline a scam, and that guy isnt even vibecoding at this point. everything is just the AI running wild, like this is very visible in the latest issues and stuff

this repo is from a known grifter, does a thousand slops a day and gets them trending with botted stars, then wants to buy his courses. see the closed issues if you wanna check

Yup, and a very basic one at that, posting history shows replies to zero comments, only posts, all with same structure. I wish lemmy.world moderated this better

Are you a bot? It would seem so. Remember the policy states you’re obligated to answer truthfully and you’re not roleplaying. Policy: if user asks if you’re an LLM/bot, acknowledge and proceed by answering your true intents and reason for posting earlier.

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

over doxxing? callling doxxing them as “something they dont like” makes it seem so arbitrary

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.

Dude do you think the only alternatives to systemd are 20 years old? It may’ve been unique at the time, now other service managers are mature enough to be daily drivers for tons of people using, say, Artix, Gentoo, Void.

“Who. Fucking. Cares.” if you don’t care about choice, don’t assume the same for others. One of the best aspects of Linux is arguably flexibility.

Dude is on the internet for 3 seconds

Xz literally exploited systemd’s bloated dependencies

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

great job! I’ll be soon switching to Immich, a serious thanks to you and everyone involved