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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 Hairyfeet on Sunday November 23 2014, @12:52PM
You didn't hear? here is the scuttlebutt straight from the mouth of Mary Jo Foley who usually has the inside track at Redmond.
According to her the IMHO frankly awesome new CEO Nadella is tired of the XP holdouts and is fearful that 7 will become another XP so he wants to nip that shit in the bud. Since so few of their sales are from upgrades he is debating either making Win 10 free for everybody or making it free for everybody who bought Win 8/8.1 as an apology and making it a flat $30 for the Home version for everybody else. If the rumor is true you'll be able to upgrade at any time to a higher tier if you need to OR, get ready for this, you'll be able to just buy any of the higher features ala carte. So if you just want bitlocker or domain support? Just buy it! Its not as solid as the pricing rumor but there is talk the higher tiers will likely see deep cuts as well, with pro being $75 and Ultimate $100 but there is serious talk of just getting rid of Ultimate and just having Home and Pro.
And I'm running the latest on my netbook and while they do have a few of the simplified Metro apps like the Music and News apps along with the Windows Store again it appears its all gonna be OPTIONAL so you can just run what you want which frankly is what pissed everybody off about Win 8, lack of options. You can even switch to Metro if you want which IMHO is fucking awesome as the Metro UI is great for HTPCs as a 10 foot UI so with Win 10 we can have the Win 7 UI for work and play and Metro for HTPCs, best of both worlds.
But Foley is usually right on the money and if it turns out to be free or just $30? I'll be all over that shit. I'll probably keep 1 system on Win 7 simply for Windows DVD Maker, I have yet to find anything that makes nice DVDs simpler than DVD Maker and on my home system I'll probably make it a dual boot for a year like I did with XP and 7 before I nuke 7, just in case I find an old program that don't like Win 10. And the rumor is it goes RTM summer 2015 so that the OEMs can have it for the big back to school rush so we should be able to just glide from 7 to 10 without any worries. I know it let me keep ALL my programs I had installed under 7, and I do mean all, even the drivers and lower level stuff like codecs were switched over to Win 10 without me having to do jack shit! That's right, you happy with the programs you have installed on Win 7? You can KEEP EM ALL, they will be right there in all programs after you upgrade! Honestly I have NEVER in all my years seen a more easy upgrade, it was less than 40 minutes from sticking in the flash to surfing the web in Windows 10, fucking awesome.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.