Thanks for the response. A more focused question might be: how can an anarchist society reasonably resist authoritarianism? And doesn’t the whole scheme rely on greed not being a fundamental component of humanity?

What if the workers disagree with each other? I’ve had the same question as OP for a long time with no answer.

That’s normally perl for me.

Mac os

That’s a great reason! Why use a computer at all if you can’t look cool while you use it?

From reading all of these comments, I think I have to agree. It seems like systemd as “the tool” is ok (I know there’s some argument there too), but systemd as the project and ecosystem seems to go a bit against the soul of GNU and Unix.

My question was just curiosity. If there’s a good reason to switch to something else, I’d like to know, you know?

Ah ok. Is that different for runit or the other typical alternatives?

Can someone persuade me to not use systemd without using the word ‘bloat?’

Your username gave me anxiety.

Arch with ‘minimal’ install is pretty small. Would that work?

Exactly, I think it just comes down to being good practice. There’s a 99.99% chance that any unfamiliar system has one of vi, vim, emacs. Not bad to be familiar with one or each.

That’s valid. In theory, because you’re downloading open source on there, you could audit the apps you download, but don’t know anyone who does that unless it’s their job.

Wouldn’t that be the same for any other alternative? That’s what a monopoly does.

F-Droid

Yeah it takes 3 minutes to install arch now. What’s the debate?

Yes, it’s nice and worth learning, especially if you try at both highly abstracted code and performance sensitive projects. Don’t get stuck thinking in c# though. Its brand of strict oop seems to be getting less popular these days.