Re:Cool but obscure X11 tools
by big_chungus on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:58PM
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He's been that way for a long time; before he ever touched systemd. Same situation around avahi, and later around pulseaudio. I agree some people have behaved unkindly as well, but that doesn't excuse what he does. He also has a nasty habit of forcing his work into places where it is not wanted (especially now that he works for red hat).
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I have to admit that avahi has caused me more trouble -- 100% CPU spin loops -- than any other piece of system software, over many years. It does nothing I want done, does it badly, and is inexplicably hard to get rid of.
PulseAudio mostly works, now, but I will be happy to see its low-latency successor displace it.
Systemd's only great sin is using up 100MB in each VM to do what should takevno more than 4M. As memory gets bigger, I run more VMs, so systemd usage grows apace. Maybe I should be running containers instead, but Qubes doesn't work that way.
Re:Cool but obscure X11 tools
by yencabulator on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:14PM
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> PulseAudio mostly works
I regularly kill PulseAudio to get bluetooth headset pairing to complete.
> but that doesn't excuse what he does
It doesn't excuse the community's behaviour either to be fair.
> He also has a nasty habit of forcing his work into places where it is not wanted (especially now that he works for red hat).
I seriously doubt he has such power.