R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>I'm finding the weird politics inside the <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> world kinda exhausting right now.</p><p>Like, guys, I'm a glorified shell script kiddie that cosplayed as a sysadmin for five years a lot of years ago (and hated it).</p><p>I don't have the technical knowhow to really dive into just what the flip <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemD</span></a> is and why so much money is being poured into it by literally one of the most evil corporations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funniest_joke_in_the_world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">die flipperwaltd gersput</a>.</p><p>I strongly desire to find a good distro to recommend to newbs (including a cow-orker that I will be forcibly upgrading away from Windows 10 later this year), but then I'm divided between the knowledge that I'm adding to the SystemD/Linux userbase (for whatever monstrosity that will some day become), and the fact that non-systemD distros generally can require more effort to maintain, and lack the polish of something like the Fedora-derivatives.</p><p>I read <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1098914" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> announcement/note today and kinda flipped my lid:</p><blockquote><ul><li>Drop systemd-resolved package. The ctte has declared that the way the systemd-resolved tool works is incompatible with their decision to prioritize avahi in Debian. <strong>Furthermore, the resolved tool is being used to inflict pain on the maintainer, and induce burnout.</strong> Regrettably, the only safe solution to ensure this package is compliant with this decision is to drop it, as all reasonable alternatives put forward have been rejected:<br><a href="https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/289" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/289</a> (Closes: #1098914)<br>(Emphasis added)</li></ul></blockquote><p>WHAT THE FARGLESNUFF DOES THAT MEAN?!?</p><p>Can anyone explain to me <em>rationally</em> what in the world is happening in the Linux world?</p><p>Because the obviously anti-systemd crowd are still mostly talking about PID 1, which I'm honestly not that concerned about, and the pro-systemd crowd are all like, "No, no, it's great you're all being crazy, I got the Harkonnen blood plug just last week and it feels great!"</p><p>:BlobCatNotLikeThisCry:</p>