cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62192988
The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):
paramazo/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager without age verification"
ganitam/systemd "Systemd fork just before the Age Verification addition. Hoping more capable developers and maintainers do same.."
GSYT-Productions/systemd-fork "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the stupid Age Verification"
speedythesnail/unre tarded-systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the r e t arded age-verification commits"
ta13579/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager WITHOUT THE FUCKING AGE CHECKS"
r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification "This is systemd but without the age verification made via pull request https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40978"
Pingasmaster/fightthesystemd "Systemd without the nonsense: no age verification, no lighthouse built-in."
Jeffrey-Sardina/system "Liberated systemd -- no surveillance. Ever."
HaplessIdiot/systemd-saneagecheck "The systemd System and Service Manager with age verification bypass and polling rate options for said feature"
Queer-Coded-LGBTQ/systemd-fuck-california "The systemd System and Service Manager, but without age bs added in."
Codiak540/unshitted-systemd "A fork of systemd aiming to strip the Age verification. Sue me california."
Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.
100%
Why trade one metastatic syphilis for another? Just go back to what worked and gave us reliable, fast boots, no fstab fuckery, and no "I'm sorry I can't shut down because I was designed by a guy who wanted to work at Microsoft (and now does)" bullshit. It's all fucking baling wire.
Heaven forbid we need to learn what xinetd is for, or how to make a fucking loop in a bash start script.
The stop job bullshit pisses me off so much. I shut down the computer because I want it off JUST KILL THE PROCESS.
This drives me absolutely nuts. For my Linux machines, I just type
sudo shutdown nowand that does the trick no problem. 9 times out of 10 I have a terminal window open anyway.But my work laptop running Windows 11? lmao, after deliberately shutting it down on Friday last week, I just pulled it out and opened it up to a prompt from Outlook saying "Do you want to delete everything in 'Deleted items'?" and a nearly-dead battery. Thanks Microsoft. That's definitely what I want it to do when I hit "SHUT DOWN".
Agreed. I prefer windows to shut down as God intended: without any notice while I'm playing a video game so that it can do some stupid update.