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wkat4242 ◴[] No.40206210[source]
I'm really starting to hate the sub-community in Linux that tries to constantly change it.

I don't want to learn a new network config alternative with every update (Ubuntu changed its net config tool again with 24.04). I don't want an immutable os. I don't want to learn to write new config files. I just want to do what I've been doing but with new packages. If there's a problem with something, just fix it. Don't throw out the whole thing.

I moved to FreeBSD and am happy for its reluctance to change. If there is any, it's usually offering something genuinely new to me as a feature and to boot I only need to learn about it if I need it.

Hardware support is much lower but it's worth it IMO. I had the same irritation with macOS. Every release breaking something essential that was part of my workflow and i didn't want to change. Eventually I did change but away from Apple.

I don't want to change to LennartOS either.

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1. jauntywundrkind ◴[] No.40215456[source]
What complaining. There weren't paved paths before. Whatever one person learned was different from how anyone else did it. Few of the tools had anywhere near the essential capabilities, serving o ly some tiny niche of the use cases in some tool specific limited way.

Look at all the different netsevs supported by systemd-networkd. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst... This is a huge list of tools that required a huge assortment of tools to do before, few of which had even part way decent management & fewer still had good init scripts. You used to have to learn from 0 each time, with each tool. Nothing was alike, nothing was as capable, nothing was integrative.

Don't listen to these complainers, for God sake. Your life is too short to get pissed off about well built work together featureful tools being built in a mono-repo fashion.

I'm so tired of the sabotage, so tired of broadscale general refusenik attitudes. This post is absurd. There was nothing to learn before, everything was 100% special snowflake & distinct. None of it was great, all of it was limited. Systemd mono-repo is built of many small pieces, but they couple together and are 100x more learnable. What you learn today will work across whatever system you run across. It's such a a better world, and these "pry it from my cold dead fingers" attitude can keep to that path for all I care, but I wish they weren't poisoning kinds with absurd incorrect negativity & being such magnets for disdain. The world today is fantastic & you rarely see these folks with even an iota of appreciation for how good we have it, never a drop of balance. But hate sells, & unites, powerfully.

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2. lupusreal ◴[] No.40217067[source]
> so tired of broadscale general refusenik attitudes

You can use whatever software you like on your computers, but you're not entitled to have everybody else follow your choices because everybody else has exactly the same freedom to choose as you do. And if you want to persuade people to follow your lead, name calling is a bad strategy (much less ethnically charged name calling...)

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3. jauntywundrkind ◴[] No.40218465[source]
The anti-systemd crowd dishes it out like crazy & gets minimal blowback. I'm done letting them be monsters with small minded attitudes, ragging & raging with old crusty attitudes that refuse refuse refuse.

I have heard people use refusenik numerous times & never once has it crossed my mind or seemed remotely related to any ethnic matters. There does appear to be a definition though. Alas. It's a great fucking word, makes me smile, feels well crafted & spry, & I detest giving it up, relinquishing it: but I hereby renounce my previous usage & give it up. Blast. Now there is only absence.

(Also, usually name calling is bad because your insulting someone for being something. New here, but I don't think refusenik in the ethnic sense is at all slanderous or insulting though? It's a comment more upon the totalitarian state & a contravention of Declaration of Human Rights than it is a comment on the person? So I'm not sure that there's any victims to the modern reuse & repurposing of this word, unlike most terms that had some ethnic aspect. Indeed, the extensive & adaptive history of usage of this word seems to show ever growing rift in meaning from it's original use, & little fear that just because there was an ethnic situation we cannot use it... I begin to think you protest too loudly.)