Re: Wayland or X11, was: Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:47:08 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

Systemd increases complexity ...

No it doesn’t. It simplifies service management, which is why it has
become so popular. Think of how easy it makes it, not just to write your
own service configuration, but to customize an existing one, without
having to rewrite the whole thing. Compare that with the boilerplate-
ridden blob that is your typical sysvinit script.

Microsoft probably does not care much about Linux kernel.

Yes it does, actually, given it has started including it as an option in
Windows installations. I think for its “AI workstation” configuration, a
Linux kernel is even mandatory.

Similarly, if Microsoft decieded to replace its kernel by Linux
kernel Windows would be as proprietary as it is now.

But the Linux kernel is under the GPL. Any code that derives from it must
also be licensed under the GPL.

And fact that Linux kernel is GPL and shipped as part of WSL
does not change fact that Windows is proprietary.

But using it to replace the Windows kernel would change that fact.

It is hard to say what _exactly_ Miscrosoft will do, they have many
possibilities.

It’s quite easy to see where the path of least resistance lies: it lies in
gradually abandoning that unmaintainable hot mess that the Windows kernel
has become, and moving to taking more advantage of Linux.

Historically, grassroot contributions where important to Linux.  And
they were possible because of limited complexity and presence of
advanced users.  But deskilling of system administration and growing
opacity of system is going to limit this.

Speak for yourself. That may be true in the proprietary platforms, which
discourage users from peeking and poking around; the Free Software world
not only encourages that, it relies on it.