Comment by Brian_K_White

3 months ago

You think you get to just declare the opinion that differs from yours invalid by calling it religious?

Don't the holders of that opinion get to call your position equally religious?

"not a disagreement based on technical or even practical merits" indeed, right there in the mirror.

The first few minutes of this video absolutely articulated some perfectly technical and practical merits. So have some comments here on this hn post. I don't see how it's valid to say no one has ever produced any.

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Dalewyn  3 months ago

I think the debate on systemd as regards to its merits was decided already years ago when all the major Linux distros adopted it. You need to go way out of your way to run Linux without systemd now, people who want that setup have clearly become a (very small) minority while the rest of the Linux world moved on.

The conflict as parent commenter witnesses it continues because that small minority continue to (very loudly) disagree not on the merits. It is their prerogative to disagree if they desire, but their basis is much more about beliefs than superiority.

It's like Polandball memes where UK crazily chants "Britannia rule the waves...!" while US goes off to freedom some oil with its boats.