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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Even completely headless, command line doesn't prioritize in any way. Today I had to reinstall an entire system from scratch because a drive listed in my /etc/fstab died. That makes boot into emergency mode, where you get no SSH, no network, no sound, and no screen reader. There is no quick way to force it to try and boot even though drive 7 of 11 has died, and it could absolutely bring up SSH and the network to let me fix it if it wanted to, just like sysvinit used to do. You can't even force systemd to add SSH and the network to emergency mode because of circular dependencies. nofail will only continue the boot if the drive doesn't exist, but if the filesystem has issues...emergency mode for you. In short: if your drive dies on Linux, fuck you. Be able to see, or reinstall your entire system, because nobody in Linuxland gives a shit about or your needs.
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Howard Chu @ Symas @hyc@mastodon.social
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@fastfinge systemd's design philosophy does not represent all of linuxland. Most seasoned linux devs hate systemd and all it brings with it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@hyc Interesting that it continues to exist, and is the default in every major distro, then. Apparently Linux is just as subject to enshittification as everything else.
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Howard Chu @ Symas @hyc@mastodon.social
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@fastfinge Yeah, commercial $$ from RedHat helped push it, etc. The folks in the Debian community hated it enough to hardfork and make Devuan, which continues to use sysvinit.
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