Unfortunately this seems to be a growing trend following the Microsoft playbook of acquisition, suppression, and extinction on various Linux communities and mailing lists I've been privy to as of recent.

Fewer and fewer distributions have avoided systemd but discussion into alternatives is growingly met with hostilities. ArchLinux took a severe hardline approach and rampantly banned any anti-systemd topics and users as well as anyone offering alternatives. While LQ has been trying to maintain neutrality as a position, growing numbers of systemd fanboys who immediately attack and troll people just to get them hushed or banned is climbing.



In advance, I just want to say that what I am about to say is my own opinion and in no way reflects or represents anyone else.



Put politely as possible: “Stuff them.”



I do not think that this is any one person, community or agenda. The Linux community for the most part has been dominated by communities beholden to a particular version of Linux and never to Linux as a whole. This encourages “group think.” Once you get them fixated on anything – it does not have to be systemd – it could be package format or filesystem, everyone else is wrong and they are right. It does not matter what the reasons are. Almost all individual impulse is subsumed. When someone objects, for example Ian Jackson over at Debian, the community becomes so hostile that they leave.



I just use the code. That is the whole point of opensource, and if people do not like my opinions then so be it. I seldom participate in Linux communities outside of developer discussions or help topics. Devuan is an exception. I came back, because for some reason I am genuinely curious about what goes on here. In the main, it is my opinion that the entire community is just too toxic. Just like politics, people have become intolerant beyond reason. I try very hard to be reasonable, but I frown on Linux these days.