systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems

[lowflyer]

While systemd is slowly taking over other people's kernels, I will spend Christmas without it. So happy that I don't have to deal with that crap.

[Smurphy]

Can I change the color of the output? I´d like it to be orange or pink?

[brent]

I would like to have a guru meditiation instead.

[NomadDemon]

Systemd is great software

BSOD would be nice also, more info, more unification. would not happen often so....

[tildearrow]

Couldn't it be black by default? Why the need to copy Windows?

[Mariusz]

I'm really happy because of systemd-vmspawn feature, I was looking for something like this for some time..

[waxhead]

I would like to have a guru meditiation instead.

Hashtag mee too!!

But on the serious side. The Amiga 2.0+ error where you get "system failure" and/or "recoverable alert" makes more sense than a bsod style error.

[user1]

You honestly have to love systemd. Their product is incredible. It shows what can be accomplished when people work together well.

I have no problem with systemd in general, but I do have a problem specifically with systemd-resolved. It's utter garbage. I always experience unexplained network slowdowns on distros that use it by default (Fedora and Ubuntu based distros) which don't happen on distros that don't use it by default. Also you have this issue that is still open after 4 years: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13432 . I've seen others also complain that it has broken behaviour with public Wi-Fi and VPNs.

[Mavman]

[WARNING: very satirical and cynical comment ahead - don't bother to reply!]

"Oh look!!! they've created the BSOD for Linux (30 years later)!!! How wonderful!!! Now we can all spend Christmas looking into a blue screen - trying not to cry - while asking ourselfs why it happened with a sense of nostalgia!!!"

Yes, what else could we ask for xmas but a BSOD??? Lots of BSOD!!! Yes!!! We all love when our computers crash!!! Bring on BSODs!!!

You know what's the next best thing?
We can all now go on to the front of MS' HQ and say to everyone that goes in: "You know what my Linux OS now produces??? BSOD's!!!"

(you'll have to ignore those that will say that's a terribly rare thing on windows these days and that BSOD are mostly a thing of the past, thou....)

Happy xmas everyone

ahahahahahahhaha

[ElectricPrism]

[WARNING: very satirical and cynical comment ahead - don't bother to reply!]

You wrote a [ Trigger Warning ] for a satire ??? ... It's just sad that out society has come to this point where you can't throw a bucket of gravel without there being somebody out there that will hypothetically argue -- what if each of those individual gravels is alive and by throwing them you are causing them pain.

Most of us with a brain all know where this non-sense road of pandering to the fragile ends. In utter ruin. /rant -- but anyways I found your rant mildly amusing, rant on brother.

Lennart is being paid by Microsoft to make desktop GNU/Linux more like Windows. So you might as well get used to this type of nonsense. Next up will be 'systemd-clippy', and 'systemd-cortana'.

So GNU/Windows what ... 2026?

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As for the division of WTF reactions I am mixed on this one. On the one hand it capitalizes on existing user and admin expectations -- which in my book is generally good -- (when a thing does a thing the user understands) -- on the other hand it's replicating a infamous characteristic that is undignified and derogatory -- like does it really have to be Blue? Why Not Grey, Green, or something else to sufficiently leave Windows bad reputation entirely on themselves.

Also, is this the best we can do? Isn't there a better way to record error message data for review at next boot or to a file or somewhere where the same benefit can be gotten without the quirky AllYourComputerAreBelongToFreezeTM ???