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Probably true, but Arch being what it is, there's still the option to install sysvinit or whatever. The question remains - how important is NOT using systemd to the admin in question?

My team unanimously dumped various jetbrains products a couple of years ago when a particular event started, on the urging of just one QA engineer. Made no utilitarian sense whatsoever, but it made them feel warm and cozy.

Gentoo, Arch, and their derivatives still exist. How important is a legacy init system to you?

Best practices change. For example, no one is still recommending manually editing the CHS start of a boot partition on your spinning rust device in order to optimize throughput.

Legal eagle on YouTube and nebula has a recent video on this very subject. Short form? It's over.

Yes, that should be obvious to even the most casual observer. In practice however it doesn't matter. There will always be layers to any bureaucracy. The need is to start peeling back the layers.

For the record, this sort of rhetoric does not help. All you're achieving (perhaps your goal) is to push people away from the fight.

Vote as if there weren't two full sets of electors insulating you from the actual outcome.

Funny thing is, I did neither of those things the last time I had need to install; the script handled it for me.

Where, precisely, did I say it was? No system is secure. Some attempt to promote security by design and practice, and some make it all too easy to give up security in the name of entertainment.

Today I learned that simply allowing somebody else to be and look like they want to is privilege. Pray tell, kind being, how does one avoid this sort of privilege? Should I be pushing my opinion on everything with ears?

Windows is also really good at running kernel-based rootkits disguised as anti cheat. That's something else Linux can't do!

Pretty slim pickings there, but I can't especially disagree. The point of the question really was to allow the poster to explain a very specific implication they made.