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So, here's the thing. Linux is already quite crap on anything older than a few years. The bloat has gone up and up and up. I would much rather run ELKS, NetBSD, or Minix on a 386-Pentium4 than any Linux system. Using Linux on an early AMD64 machine is likewise somewhat painful. TBH, if Microsoft succeeds in getting TPM as a requirement in systemd, I won't care. When I do use Linux, I use Slackware which doesn't use systemd, and most of the time, I just don't use Linux anymore. When I was a kid, I loved it. Once I got a job designing, building, deploying, and maintaining Linux software systems... I began to get over it. Linux isn't now what it once was. The spirit of early Linux is preserved more in the hobby OS dev scene than in Linux. Being more honest, as a seasoned Linux professional, I now fully understand and sympathize with BSD's slightly unwelcoming-to-newbz culture. It prevents BSD from turning into what Linux has become. This TPM+systemd move could just increase pid1 diversity, or it could just kill Linux and bring the rebirth of commercial BSD. Plus, Serenity moves really really quickly. If everyone abandoned Linux and Serenity got more attention, who knows what could happen.

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The “Microsoft will now sell you one” URL doesn’t work.

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