Originally posted by aht0
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The "multiple alternatives" chorus is a scratched record at this point. Just to repeat what had been said ad-nauseam, no-one gave a f**k about "init alternatives" until systemd came about, no major distro ever offered "init alternatives" (having openrc or daemontools in a contrib repo is not the same as actually basing the OS on it), those who whine about systemd always claim how ***BSD is supposedly better but there is absolutely no alternative to anything on BSD, many of them happily use MacOS which has launchd and no alternatives, there are no alternatives for the TCP/IP stack, the syscall interface, GCC (until clang came around) and it doesn't bother anyone, there have been some alternative/competing projects at various times (wayland vs. mir, before that Xfree vs X.org, rust coreutils vs gnu coreutils etc., snap vs appimage vs flatpak) and each time the same crowd who is whining because lack of "init alternatives" was howling about fragmentation. So there.
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