Obligatory XKCD: Standards

As spoken by the prophet.

I wish I had mod points.

It would appear that his "What did I learn?" section is also missing a crucial item.
He bought a new house and didn't contact the builder to resolve the laundry issues? That's like buying a new server with missing parts and trying to fix it yourself.

Looking good, Billy Ray.

Thank you for opening the nostalgia portal. I cut my teeth on 4.1.5.

I dunno, 2020 felt like it was thirty months long...

If they are aliens, they need to check in with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and get their "O" visa before seeking employment.

If you're sending her DVDs, you'll most likely need to get multi-region or Region 2 encoded.

"You can only be avant garde for so long before you become garde." Anne Beatts

According to the guide, we will need 3 rockets.

Dress for the slide, not the ride.

Old-guy here.
It's not just you whippersnappers; many of us gave up watching cable news (including Fox) a couple of decades ago when we got tired of the constant emotional manipulation and opinion-based commentary being passed off as reporting.

I run a systemd-based distro on my laptops at work and at home, and while I don't care for it, that doesn't affect my ability to get work done on those systems. I would guess that most "desktop" Linux users are also running it on a Laptop, where it's a trivial matter to remove (or just install a distro that uses a different init system). But, systems running Linux for routine desktop use are the vast minority of installed Linux systems.

The issue with systemd as I see it is the project's scope creep introducing instability, incompatibility, vulnerabilities, and non-standard practices into hundreds or thousands of Linux servers. Those of us who have to mange these systems generally prefer stability, security, well published standards, and Enterprise support over having the init system trying to manage network connections, DNS, filesystem mounts, and outputting binary logging which tends to break many well established tools and processes. Sure we can switch to a different init system or disable those capabilities, but all of those changes are now non-standard configurations which will most likely not be supported by the vendor. And in most large organizations, Enterprise support is a must.

The question is who are "normal" Linux users? The very small percentage running it as a Desktop OS or those managing huge fleets of servers? His focus seems to be making Linux into a Desktop OS as Windows-like as possible (which in and of itself is not a bad goal for a Desktop OS), and I'm not going to get into the details of Poettering's responses to sysadmin community's concerns about the project's direction, but let's just say it was underwhelming. The really disappointing thins is that there seems to be a distinct lack of empathy toward the concerns of enterprise sysadmins opposed to systemd from the community promoting it. Yes, some of our processes and tools may seem old and worn, but that is because we typically value predictability, repeatability, and stability over something else simply because it is new and shiny.

We too find the argument tiring. We also find the lack of understanding frustrating.

For any one who modded GP down, please post a comment as yourself somewhere on this thread to remove the mod.
Drinkypoo is correct, literary works cannot be in the "Public Domain" and under "Copyright Protection" at the same time; they are mutually exclusive states.

I think you mean "Fruit of the poisonous tree".
"Fruit of the forbidden tree" has an entirely different context.