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From: Not Necessary <not@necessary.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 04:22:53 +0530
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On 30/06/25 10:07 pm, Nux Vomica wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:52:36 +0530, Not Necessary wrote:
> 
>>
>> Well, systemd is notorious among init script enthusiasts that it isn't a
>> set of plaintext configuration files like rc scripts, but a bunch of
>> inter-connected binary files that take over nearly the entirety of
>> system management, from initializing the kernel to system logs.
>>
> 
> It makes me retch almost immediately.
> 
> What sentient being would ever desire to relegate control of his
> personal computing machine to a foreign entity?
> 
> F**k systemd!  F**k Wayland!
> 
> 
> 

Is your kernel also a bunch of init scripts, lol? Computers internally
can't understand plaintext; that is an abstraction for humans. Computers
understand *binaries* (that's zeros and ones for your information). As
long as the source code is publicly available (systemd is still open
source), there's no difference between it being a binary and the kernel
being a binary post compilation.

Also, let X11 fractional scaling (which most people on high density
displays require) without wasting four cycles to generate and render one
single frame. Both of them have their strengths and weaknesses: Features
from X11 should have been migrated to Wayland without breaking its
security protocols; while rendering optimizations from Wayland should
have been migrated back into X11 (some of which XLibre is doing.)

Dumb shit like software flame wars and gatekeeping is what gives Linux
and the open source community a bad reputation.