Long time Debian user. First time really paying attention to their governance process.

What is this, a Monty Python skit? How the fuck are they gonna come with a consensus with all these choices?

There’s really just choices 1 & 2. The rest are just elaboration. And what the fuck is even ‘none of the above’?

Really, there’s just ‘yes’ and ‘no’. If it’s a ‘yes’, there would certainly be condition, which can come later. If it’s a ‘no’, who give a shit why; it’s a vote, not a fucking book club. They can definitely put the reason in the comment, but do they really need to put the reasons as the choice?

You’re right. Women also like to stare at boobs.

Another use case I failed to mention: staring at butts.

But of course it does something. It blocks light, and let a man stare at boobs discreetly.

leave the poor billionaires alone!

Temu for RAM? Sign me up!

Hell yeah! To hell with that chip monopoly. National security my ass!

Ah yes, the great filter.

Honestly, I’m on the fence of whether this is a tech news or not.

Thanks for saving us the trip!

You’re asking too much here. I mean, just look at who’s in charge.

So that’s why my system was suddenly pulling a hundred something packages when I randomly check for update.

Good one.

While old packages do ruin experiences, stuff changing too rapidly can as well.

Arch as well as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a good example at this.

There’s no free lunch. These people said it themselves.

Damn, I wish I have that level of dedication toward something.

They’re still going at it??

While I’m aware that it’s completely feasible and even practical to setup desktop on alpine, what drove me away was the fact we’d be ditching musl & busybox for more full-featured solutions anyway.

The systemd units are easier to create and maintain compared to the init scripts. The systemd itself can also be used as a one stop solution for cron, hostname, ntp client, dns resolver, tmpfile manager, even bootloader, and many more.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d use OpenRC where I can, but I totally see why systemd is popular.

As for the XLibre, I’ve never used it myself since I’d be upgrading to Wayland instead. My legacy systems remain on X11. I’ve read it’s quige buggy tho. At the same time, there are a lot of fanatics who are making this a big deal out of proportion.

AFAIK, they’re not switching to systemd in the first place, at least for its base system. PostmarketOS is tho, and I can see why they’d want to facilitate that.

I too would like to know more about this controversies. Some quick web search found me some articles about xlibre rejection as well as preparation for systemd compatibility, none of which should be a big deal.

As for myself, I avoid running Alpine for a full-featured desktop system simply for the fact they’re designed for embedded systems.

I have in fact tried setting it up for desktop use. What made me end up abandoning it was that I ended up having to get rid of the stuff that make the distro special (i.e. busybox and musl) since even the lightest distro requires udev and all.