[arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:23 PM, teseo at broletto.org <teseo at broletto.org> wrote:
>> most of which are systems using systemd.  Given that so many machines
>> are currently running systemd it can't be all that bad! This is of
>>
> How many machines are currently running Windows*?
>

Surely that is not particularly relevant - Windows users are largely
people who are not computer literate (though some fraction of Windows
users are able to do some real hacking but not too many as a fraction
of the total). They are users who got Windows as "the" system when
they bought their laptops/desktops, and are none the wiser that any
alternative exists - on the other hand the majority of linux users are
computer literate, hands-on, people who know that they have choices -
and if they are using a particular flavour of linux and find they
don't like it then they have the knowledge and power to change it and
move to a different distribution - so the majority of Windows users
who find problems will seek a Windows guru to fix their machine ( or
re-install it from scratch, clean up the registry, run "defrag" and
other tools to try and get working until Microsoft eventually delivers
the next great version of Windows ). On the other hand linux users if
they "really" don't like what they see will change their system - if
they don't like Gnome they can use KDE, LXDE, XFCE etc - and if they
are Fedora users and "really" don't like systemd then they can move to
another distribution where systemd is not the default - they have
alternatives -

So logic would suggest that the inferences drawn from large numbers of
linux users is likely to be different from the inference about even
larger numbers of Windows users.

-- 
mike c