[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 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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:12AM
Thank you for making sense...