And I’m tired of people who think the world is black and white.

Me and my whole family are practicing Jews, including my friends, they all thought it was silly.

Mullvad is sort of like the “Qubes OS” of the VPN world, no port forwarding and no openvpn support while proton is more like the standard Linux experience that allows you to be more flexible.

Choose depending on your threat model, I personally use mullvad because I don’t need the features that they don’t support yet.

What do you use now?

Yk what thank you, there’s always room for improvement

Just use mullvad vpn

Consent? What’s that, huh?

Its either mullvad or nothing all day everyday

well said honestly, totally agree with how you put forward your argument and framing here

man i love contributing to open source projects so much, its my way of saying thank you to the developers if I don’t plan on supporting them through donations

the only tiktok trend I support

“Come on guys, I know I’m wealth hoarding and I most probably didn’t take human morals into account when I acquired it, but I have feelings okay!”

I’m not saying they have to support other init systems, I know it’s my responsibility and i made it work, I agree with you.

didn’t say that distros have to bend for my will in regards to needing to include options other than systemd, everyone is free to publish whatever they wish and If I don’t like it, I won’t use it, simple as that.

I’m just expressing a concern where over relying on one init system will limit options

that’s systemd lock-in for ya

You’re right that the GNU toolchain is massive, but the distinction lies in "modularity versus integration". GNU tools are a collection of separate programs that happen to work together, you can swap bash for zsh or ls for busybox without breaking the whole system. systemd, however, is a tightly coupled suite where the init, logging, networking, and DNS are interdependent.

The idea of Linux isn’t just about running big software, it’s about the ability to compose a system from independent parts.

When a single project dictates the entire stack and makes it nearly impossible to replace just one component without rewriting half the OS, that crosses the line from toolchain to platform lock-in, which is a fundamentally different threat to user freedom than a collection of large but separable GNU utilities.

still worth to migrate to artix, I think its amazing (some tweaking needed)

I didn’t say people have to explore, I know its a choice

mullvad vpn refuses to run on non-systemd init systems, had to do heavy tweaking to get it to run but ultimately ended up using the “manual” wireshark method.

I don’t have anything against mullvad, I’m a huge fan of their service but that’s one example

Idk. about the Linux idea and the freedom being at risk.

imagine this, you’re a windows user ready to make the jump, you’re looking at different distros and they’re all have a systemd init system.

you finally choose a distro and make the jump, you use ur os for a few months and you feel ready to explore the vast universe of different distros with different flavors, you had a great experience after all.

and then you switch to something like void Linux, technically able people will have no problem switching to this but someone who is used to the convince of systemd just because “it works” might just go back to what they’re comfortable with, this doesn’t encourage exploration and freedom of choice because systemd does everything for you and the apps you love and use might not be compatible with something other than systemd unless you heavily tweak things.

You’ve chosen another init system, they’ve chosen theirs -hopefully- for technical reasons.

Totally agree with you on this, not saying people shouldn’t choose their init system, they’re free to do so.

unfortunately not everyone can be saved but we try to educate