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Re:Linux distros without systemd by eropple on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:59AM (#19961758)
...and when you care quite deeply about the problems being solved, think they're being solved in a pretty good way, and are unsettled by the anti-systemd frothers literally sending Lennart death threats? (Like...this is bad, yo. There are arguments--bad ones, IMO, but arguments--against systemd. But the people who like systemd aren't sending death threats to Devuan people or whatever.)

What group is that?

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Re:Linux distros without systemd by silversconfused on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:18PM (#19962645)
To be fair, the ones sending death threats are contributing negatively, while the fork effort is a positive contribution to the situation. We'd appreciate not being lumped in with the worst offenders, if you'd be so kind.
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Re:Linux distros without systemd by tracker1 on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:38PM (#19962872)
A lot of the western world has devolved into tribalism and identitarianism. People of similar views on anything are lumped in en-masse and presumed to hold all of the same values, opinions and support all actions of the collective whole.

It's a shame that a lot of core values are lost in favor of these viewpoints.

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Re:Linux distros without systemd by silversconfused on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:09PM (#19963251)
Yeah. It is really sad. We're getting hyper-polarized options and information everywhere we look, and it's affected people's ability to argue a specific point if they detect any misalignment of interests. I've been calling it "casually dismissing someone's opinion by lumping it in with an ideology", but looking for something more concise.
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