Getting to the point where we go back to cash and have a safe installed in our house …

Agree. Shameful cowardice of Australian government.

As A long time Linux user I couldn’t agree more. My son, who likes to game with me, was handing down his ‘old’ nvidia cards such as a 3070, so I put up with years of nvidia’s crap. A couple of months ago I ripped out his ‘old’ 3070 and put in a new XFX brand AMD RX 7600. Works out of the box and plenty fast for HD resolutions. Why did I waste years of my life fighting with nvidia nonsense on Linux??

• jmp.chat is Trumpistan or Canada phone numbers only afaik.

The science on this is still developing. I would be very cautious in jumping to conclusions.

At the age of 67, having tried and used everything, not just booted a vm, but honestly used, I found Arch a much higher maintenance burden. System borking changes are definitely a thing - see the “needs manual intervention” messages that happen often. I know Arch users seem to revel in this and gloss over it. Thats fine for them but I no longer get any sense of personal empowerment from tedious obsessive hand holding of any operating system. To me it’s just unnecessary distracting extra work.

I’m always interested in Micheal’s comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli ‘fixing’ things seems a poor bargain to me.

Completely ceding software development to automation. Repeat across all fields of knowledge.

As data centers recycle and churn through past human input this will be the death of human progress.

Exactly. systemd has a glaring security hole that had to be kludged. As the OP I posted the article to warn non technical users of the danger but systemd defenders league are predictably blind to any possible flaw in their golden calf and cannot resist the temptation to rush to battle. yawn

Emblematic of the decline of the former US.

If you want the convenient features of systemd without the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland then dinit is recommended. OpenRC is a mature choice. Server folk seem to recommend S6 but I dont have enough personal use of it to verify.

• expect every response trying to provide useful info here to be drowned out by systemd brigading

Read the bug in the systemd repo. meanwhile the systemd cultists will defend it to the death. Look, if you value the positive aspects of systemd but dislike the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland, dinit is a perfectly good option.

Read

Stop using it.

Any errant application can expose this glaring systemd flaw

That has not been my experience. I wonder what magical source of information you possess to accomplish all that in ten minutes lol

Switch to Devuan and have a peaceful life I guess.

Cheers!

If you think about it for even a minute this is still a glaring cve in systemd, exposed in this case, by misbehaving snapd. systemd still needed to be patched and so did snapd.

Yet another critical vulnerability in the much vaunted systemd has been exposed by a misbehaving app - in this case snapd.

Both need patching.

Yes, thank you for the extra info!