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[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]
http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:
First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.
Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @06:59AM
The ones that don't care about technical stuff like that, should be using Windows.
The silent majority (the actual majority, not the majority of a tiny minority) has spoken and they are using Windows for desktop stuff. And it sure looks like they've made a better choice. Microsoft could run backwards with crap like Vista and Metro and still stay way ahead of Desktop Linux since the Desktop Linux developers keep sabotaging stuff.
And the market shares of OSX, Android have proven that you can't blame Microsoft solely for the dismal share of Desktop Linux.
It's sad really. It would be nice to have something better.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday November 21 2014, @09:15PM
I had to acquire a new device to run some windows only camera configuration. Normally for single purpose things like this that I leave in another country I get a Mac mini, but the software wouldn't run in wine.
So I bought a cheap windows laptop. It came with windows 8, and a mouse. It's horrendous. They keyboard is unusable, the junk ware that's installed took hours to remove.
Now I know that windows 7 msdn install on a vm or rdp from my t410s with Ubuntu isn't too bad, so it must be the junk that you get with widows pcs, and the terrible hardware.
The silent majority wants this, because of the low price. They don't want quality, they want cheap, be that windows, Linux or mac.