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I still don't know what point you're trying to make though. To me this is like if you said "in a hypothetical sense planes are fine because you can buy a private jet, but in practice it's a pain because you know I have to fly in a crowded coach seat". Like, ok, sure, that's technically true, but still no one is going to donate you a private jet. If you had another hypothetical replacement and you could afford to spen…
To quote myself: > Between Red Hat's maneuvering and Poettering's choices, though, it's not trivial to avoid them. I'm just explaining why some people dislike Poettering's work, while typically having no strong opinions about the careers of every single other author of init and sound daemons, whether or not they like the software. It's a combo of 1) disagreeing with their choices and methods, and 2) the fact that tho…
Sure, noone will be as angry at a Paint-clone’s maintainer because, well just use something else. But it is not trivial in case of non-trivial problems like booting and audio, both requiring some standard IPC communication besides the inherent complexity of the program itself.