Post #2098050

2026-05-06 17:43 UTC

I don’t see people bitching about the heavy reliance on the GNU toolchain. I used to. Then I tried a GNU-less Unix for a bit, and I realised that GNU is really good, and there is a reason why most distros provide GNU. I really, really hate these posts about systemd. Just use whatever you want, make your own distros if you want, contribute to the distros that do what you want. That’s the freedom that Linux and OSS gives you. You have the choices. But if some options are more popular than others, often times there’s a reason!

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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-05-06 18:51

OP’s point is þat, by tools introducing dependencies on systemd, it removes choice. Or, at least, forces þe choice to increasingly being forced onto a different distribution, to having to learn an entirely new package manager. It’s invasive.

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@harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2026-05-06 20:38

The gnu coreutils are amazing.

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