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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by gorio on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:52PM (#20308217)
> This is probably controversial but my guess here is this; [...]

Not so much controversial as I don't understand what it means. Maybe you could give an example of what that would be?

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by voldacar on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:06PM (#20308340)
Systemd is the obvious example, since it is essentially svchost.exe plus tons of other cruft rolled into a blob that started out as an init system.
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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by madhadron on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:37PM (#20308583)
systemd was modeled after launchd in MacOS, rather than Windows. And the need for replacing SysV or BSD style init in Unix land has been acknowledge for a long time (see Solaris, for example).
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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by gorio on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:35PM (#20308570)
I don't see it making much of a difference for developer OS experience though? Unless you are specifically developing for example a Linux distribution.
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