Or just keep using Firefox and don’t use the entirely optional and opt-in features you don’t need. The same as always.

I’m completely flabbergasted why people get their panties in a twist over

• completely local features that happen to be backed by machine learning models (the translation feature is a huge privacy win over sending your text to Google translate)
• opt-in LLM integration that nobody forces you to use

Selective perception. In a thread where everyone talks about their distro, you’ll remember the arch users because of the meme.

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I’ve seen a lot of stupid patent and copyright trolling over the years.

I bet 100€ that they’re trying to double dip and get valve to also pay for licensing songs that the individual game publishers already licensed.

Death it is, CSV is horrible effectively unstandardized trash that has led to uncountable hours of efforts wasted due to subtly corrupted data through incompatible serialization settings.

It actively makes the world a worse place by existing.

That’s why I commented on you including it in what I could only read as a list of objectionable things.

You’re not wrong about the rest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the processor benchmarks really well.

Absolutely not, Iranians were cheering when the guy died. Bombs fall and they cheer. There’s no way people who do that will suddenly ally with the regime again.

That’s not an issue, IP addresses allow localization to some degree

The Californian law only affects California.

Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they’d rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they’ll now implement it for Germany and California.

And Germany.

Oof, that’s probably almost a full reinstall when you upgrade, depending on how stable your stack is. A lot of services will will have breaking config changes in that time frame.

It’s what Debian and similar distributions use to switch from one stable release to the next. This happens every half year for Ubuntu and every blue moon for Debian, which makes it a significantly more error-prone process than updating Arch every week in my experience.

That doesn’t happen. When it breaks, it’s always recoverable, and it very very very rarely breaks (>10 years Arch user here, never lost sleep about it)

Around 10 years here. Some issues, but much less time wasted in total than if I had done “dist-upgrade”s the whole time.

It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I’m interviewing for tells me I’d have to use Windows, but clearly that’s not a privilege all professions have

Yeah, as long as it made any sense to browse the web without JS. These days you need at least an allow list.

And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs

You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.

Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.

That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.

No, see the reasoning why distros switched, e.g. Debian or Arch. TL;DR: technical merit, no good alternatives existed at the time, as evidence by how the Arch maintainer paraphrased the average systemd critic:

I think there might be this other project that possibly is doing something similar. I don’t really know anything about it, but I’m pretty sure it is better than systemd.

Would the landscape be more diverse if other people would have built someone when Poettering first announced systemd? Probably! Did anyone do it? No! OpenRC wasn’t a fully fledged alternative back then, Upstart had fundamental design flaws.

But does anyone regret adopting systemd? Also no! Everybody is happy. It’s robust, it works, it makes admin lives easier. Users no longer have to deal with zombies, slow boots, and unnecessary services running.