It really sounds like they accidentally offended someone, the person who was offended was so much so that they couldn't communicate why they were offended, and then your friends misinterpreted the issue.
Plan 9 Foundation: https://p9f.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
There's still a pretty active community around Plan 9, too.
9Front, a popular fork of Plan 9: http://9front.org/
Interviews with some Plan 9 community members: https://0intro.dev/
Some videos: [A Tour of Acme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M), [Peertube channel of sigrid's](https://diode.zone/video-channels/necrocheesecake/videos)
Even if you don't like systemd (I don't but I live with it because I never have to interact with it anyway), this is such a weird way to phrase it. Imagine saying "Linux has `apt`, not my favorite thing out there. That left me with two major options: Linuxes without apt (Arch, in my case) or BSDs." Just... change the program. Apparently Arch can switch over to sysvinit just by installing two packages from the AUR (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SysVinit), Devuan exists, et cetera.
Of course, the author was sold on BSD before making this argument - and fair enough, at least it's a free system. But in my opinion it's ridiculous to discount a family of systems because of one common program.
Strict parenting puts weights on your kids' backs. Eventually they'll snap in half.
- introduce telemetry
- introduce unnecessary updates and remove the ability to choose not to install them. security updates are fine, feature updates that break things but are only temporarily avoided are unacceptable.
- remove theming. I would not remove the ability to use the themes my designers had created over the years.
- introduce a "Settings" app that fragments the OS configuration (especially if my operating system already had a weird second settings menu that you could only get to by running a command like, for example, `msconfig`).
If I did do these things, I would probably introduce them in a beta operating system and continue to support my flagship product because it would, in this hypothetical scenario, be much friendlier to the average user (whom in this scenario I target).
... then phase out your use, because proprietary systems will always get cracked given enough time.
Something I've heard a lot is "Today's Kids Don't Know What a Floppy Disk Is".TL;DR: Yes we do.Hi, I'm deven, a 16-year-old computer dude from Lewiston, Maine. It's one of the most-populated cities in this poor old state, last I checked. There aren't any game stores or arcades around here anymore. I still know what a cathode ray tube is. My friends know what a cathode ray tube is. We use them....