Literally what’s the downside? I always been in favor of even Microsoft getting into Linux. I want Microsoft to make a Linux desktop just like they have made a dos desktop. I want Microsoft to work on inter-compatibility like they already have done a bit with WSL. Add ext support to Windows, add proper NTFS support to Linux. Make something like Wine that is actually good.
This won’t kill community distros unless the corporations are doing a very good job.
Systemd is used on ~70-90% of all distros. You don’t have to use systemd, but you’re probably going to be stuck using it. But you don’t have to. You could also install… Gentoo?
Systemd being good or bad is irrelevant. We’re talking about a corporate entity being the sole decision maker in an open source setting. Quality != Consensus.
Literally what’s the downside? I always been in favor of even Microsoft getting into Linux. I want Microsoft to make a Linux desktop just like they have made a dos desktop. I want Microsoft to work on inter-compatibility like they already have done a bit with WSL. Add ext support to Windows, add proper NTFS support to Linux. Make something like Wine that is actually good.
This won’t kill community distros unless the corporations are doing a very good job.
What’s the problem with one commercial entity being the final say on all decisions in what would otherwise be an open source community? Well, that.
On one distro. 🤷
Hes saying theyd have so much sway that all other distros would have to follow whatever standards they come up with
Why? You can always do things differently than other distros
Systemd is used on ~70-90% of all distros. You don’t have to use systemd, but you’re probably going to be stuck using it. But you don’t have to. You could also install… Gentoo?
It’s widely used because it’s good.
Nobody is forcing all these distros to adopt systemd. Nobody is forcing distros to stick to systemd.
Systemd being good or bad is irrelevant. We’re talking about a corporate entity being the sole decision maker in an open source setting. Quality != Consensus.
Redhat doesn’t control debian or arch