Post #3351323
2026-06-11 18:43 UTC
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@katze@lemmy.4d2.org 2026-06-12 06:42
How long have you been around in the linux world? All of them were absolute dogshit when they came out and everyone complained (for Gnome, that means Gnome 3), but redhat kept pushing them anyway. For instance, when pulseaudio was new it caused crackles, noise, high cpu etc. everywhere, but they used their business connections to have vendors support pulseaudio *exclusively*, which meant you had to install it if you wanted to use Skype or for various games, even though ALSA was (and is) just fine. Nowadays it gets replaced by pipewire. I guess I don't need to explain the systemd drama; it has gotten much better, but what still sucks is that it drops you into a rescue mode when it can't mount some filesystem that is not even necessary for boot (e.g. /mnt/data). And when you do not have a root password set up, but use `sudo` for everything, you are screwed because systemd demands the root password nevertheless, meaning you gonna need to boot from a live usb or similar just to fix one line in fstab. That is the stupidest shit imaginable.