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Could it be the Community Might Actually Want systemd?

posted by janrinok on Thursday November 20 2014, @09:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-at-least-not-be-bothered-either-way dept.

[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.]

Konomi writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday November 21 2014, @09:15PM

    by isostatic (365) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 21 2014, @09:15PM (#118605) Journal

    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.

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