Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@BenBen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BenBen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@fabiscafe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fabiscafe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@okapi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>okapi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@chesheer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chesheer</span></a></span> I don't deny this to be a problem, far from it.</p><ul><li>In an ideal world, stuff would be portable enough that the underlying <code>init</code> (and <code>Userland</code> in general) as well as Kernel didn't matter and merely be a different config file.</li></ul><p>In reality, a substantial part of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> devs (or at least contributors) are paid by the 3 major <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> distros (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RHEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RHEL</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SLED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLED</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a>) and whilst not being antragonistic towards <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a>|s don't get employed to enshure it runs on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>, but that it runs <em>better</em> on the distro their employer is <em>selling</em>…</p><ul><li>And given that these projects don't have infinite resources and espechally maintainers I don't blame them to redelegate a lot of work to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SystemD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemD</span></a> instead of reimplementing something themselves.</li></ul><p>OFC it's saddening in regards to non-Linux <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a>-esque OSes, but given self-amplifying network effects both the murder of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSolaris</span></a> at the hands of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> (with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTC</span></a> as enablers!) and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@iXsystems" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iXsystems</span></a></span> ditching <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/trueNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trueNAS</span></a> alongside regressing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/driver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>driver</span></a> support for hardware outside of Linux, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a>, it's not a good time for these projects.</p><ul><li>Which is bad because BSDs and other OSes force Linux to innovate and <em>' <code>get gud</code> '</em>!</li></ul>