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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: 2) by Marand on Saturday November 22 2014, @09:05AM
Hehe. I see the ones who modded the original post are doing wonders for convincing people I'm wrong about this being twisted into an emotional and political issue. Why discuss technically when you can bury what you don't agree with I suppose. Good job guys.
Dude, what did you expect? You started with "people are just going to attack the poll", followed it with calling commenters "intellectually bankrupt", and then topped it off with a "fuck you".
Just because I, along with a few others, chose to overlook the tone and bad attitude and responded to other parts of your post doesn't mean the people that downmodded you for it were wrong. You can be 100% correct and still earn a flamebait or troll mod by being a dick about it. You earned that moderation, regardless of any good points made, because of how you opened fire right from the start.
(Though I think it should have been flamebait instead of trolling, but that distinction tends to be lost on people)
You see, you make good comments sometimes, but I've noticed before that you're also pretty abrasive with some of your posts, and that's going to get downmods. That doesn't mean you're wrong about something, or that people are trying to bury you for disagreeing. It's just as likely that you came across like a jerk, got downmodded for it, and not enough people came by and modded you back up on the merit of the rest of your post.
If I hadn't commented before you posted, I probably would have downmodded you too, because it read like an angry flamebait rant. I almost ignored it and didn't comment, but you seemed sincere so I decided to go for rational discussion instead and wrote a reply about parts of the rant.
TL;DR: don't let the downmods bug you, it's probably over your tone rather than an attempt to bury dissent.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday November 22 2014, @01:58PM
True I do have a tendency to be an asshole about things but I'm just sick and tired of the passive aggressive political nonsense. They deserved both the observation of it being intellectually bankrupt and they deserved to be told to fuck off. Because it's childish shit flinging. It gets old, it got old quickly and it gets really old seeing it clustered together in one place.
and let's be honest. If I were to use that exact same tone but in a way that was critical of Lennart or the other maintainers I'd get a +5 interesting. It was modded troll because I don't take sides and tell both parties that they're being stupid. The downmods in themselves don't bother me, but that they do this and yet still have the sizable brass balls to call other people ignorant, groupthinkers or cultists does.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:12AM
Thank you for making sense...