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  • Your analogy is really off the point. “Work” doesn’t just mean “the product of force and displacement”, it’s a word in the English language with many different meanings, most being listed out in the picture below.

    But the left-right political spectrum doesn’t have different definitions as it is a term, with hierarchical ideologies being considered “right”, non-hierarchical ideologies being considered “left”, and milder ideological positions being considered “center”. Even if the populace of one nation uses the terms to refer to ruling and opposing parties, it doesn’t change the inherent definitions of them.


  • It’s not just init.d that exists, alternative init systems such as dinit and OpenRC are a thing. The general complaint about systemd is that it’s too heavy and complicated for something as simple as an init system, and it has already gone way beyond that.

    This does not only increase the attack surface of a Linux system drastically, giving way to exploits and potentially backdoors, but it also puts too much power in a piece of software’s hands as more and more things start depending on it.

    And systemd is not even needed to create a user-friendly Linux system anyway. Chimera Linux with GNOME would be as smooth an experience as Fedora Linux if only it had more software in its repositories and PackageKit support.