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🐧 Linux, product and the art of essence // Dedoimedo
｢ In 2010-ish era, with mechanical disks, I was able to achieve 15-second boot times, and as little as 8.5 seconds with SSD. In that second article, you will see an almost 100% variation in results among different Ubuntu flavors, as it happens. In 2025-26, "modern" distros boot in 15-plus seconds on NVMe storage. The software bloat managed to annul the 5-25x improvements in hardware in this period. Wonderful ｣
I'm super excited to switch over to #KDE 's brand new #Plasma Login Manager, whenever #EndeavourOS chooses to support it officially - which they've said to be in the near future. #SDDM has been pretty broken/meh for me for some time now, sometime after Plasma 6 update or so.
🔗 https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/plasma-login-manager-6-6-0
Only thing I don't quite understand about the new #KDE #Plasma Login Manager requiring #Systemd is - does that mean it requires systemd-boot as the bootloader, or is that completely unrelated and even systems using #GRUB can use PLM too?
Dive into "systemd myths debunked!" — Michael Stapelberg at DebConf13 takes apart common claims about systemd with clear, technical reasoning. Must-watch for Debian users, sysadmins, and anyone curious about init systems and open-source design. #systemd #Debian #Linux #DebConf13 #sysadmin #init #OpenSource #MichaelStapelberg #English
https://peertube.codeheap.dev/videos/watch/816bce46-85af-4a41-91b5-52cb0cc9d3ff
Dive into "systemd myths debunked!" — Michael Stapelberg at DebConf13 takes apart common claims about systemd with clear, technical reasoning. Must-watch for Debian users, sysadmins, and anyone curious about init systems and open-source design. #systemd #Debian #Linux #DebConf13 #sysadmin #init #OpenSource #MichaelStapelberg #English
https://peertube.codeheap.dev/videos/watch/816bce46-85af-4a41-91b5-52cb0cc9d3ff
Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video!
In this one, we have #GNOME 50 getting a massive beta, more progress on GNOME OS, the release of #KDE Plasma 6.6, and KDE debunking some FUD around their use of SystemD, the EU taking aim at infinite scrolling, and a lot more!
@thelinuxEXP It's just silly how some folk make things so much more difficult for themselves by avoiding #systemd as if it was an infectious plague.
Dear #mastoadmins, I'd like to improve the current setup using #caddy and #podman #compose. Is anyone using #podman #quadlet with #systemd? Also I understand that having the connection between caddy reverse proxy and mastodon via sockets is very cool and I'd like to give this a try as well.
Systemd is now offering keeping podman quadlet containers up to date by itself. Maybe this one can be leveraged as well.
@rl_dane @peteorrall
Historically DMs didn't work so well.
It was a constant pain point for me. They are overly complicated and when they don't work it really sucks.
I log in to console and automatically run a dialogue shell that lets me do what I want. I also use Xmonad or Exwm, XFCE in a pinch. I don't see what a DM is doing for me other than looking pretty and getting in my way.
On this #FreeBSD laptop, I just use startx to run #openbox. I've done that on plenty of #Debian systems in the past....even in its lighter days with #sysvinit. It it helpful with multiple users, however.
As for #systemD, if it were just an init manager I'd have less of a problem with it. Creating "unit files" and where things are located are convoluted at best.
SystemD has its tentacles in other traditionally non-init things like /etc/resolv.conf and others. That's where my biggest problem lies.
