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qweqwe14today at 10:01 AM1 replyview on HN

It's Linux bro, we absolutely need to have 500 different options for every single thing. Doesn't matter if every option sucks, diversity is above everything! /s

There are some truly special people among Linux users that think diversity in init systems/libc implementations/etc is a good thing for a general-purpose desktop. They don't understand that people just want stuff to work, and developers don't want to support more than 1 init system (or other trivial thing) for their package.

Success of Linux on the desktop is fundamentally incompatible with diversity, but unfortunately not everyone gets that.


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drnick1today at 5:23 PM

> Success of Linux on the desktop is fundamentally incompatible with diversity, but unfortunately not everyone gets that.

The vast majority of "server" distributions now use systemd as well.