imagine thinking that standardising on a piece of technology after 15 years, to ensure reliability, is "alienating" to anybody.

@ebassi Hi, thanks for responding! I don't think anyone is against that, but is price for that having GNOME just for Linux/systemd? Am I wrong in assuming we'll end up with that?

the blog post explains how to cope with that, and if other platforms shipping GNOME had similar functionality, it would be easy to add; what's unacceptable is to let GNOME ship hacks that don't even get tested and can (and do) regress at any point. At least, if a downstream takes ownership of the hack with a patch, they can immediately fix it.

also: it's way too late to be surprised that Linux and systemd have the absolute majority of the market share; they get to dictate what kind of functionality is available, and other platforms need to adapt. We're not in the '80s/'90s any more, with a bunch of incompatible Unix versions all vying for dominance.

@ebassi I don't think anyone is surprised with systemd, I mean we are all using it, or majority at least. Although, I always thought of our ecosystem as one providing diversity and choice, not dominance. Maybe that's not viable down the line, and that's legit, you guys developing stuff know the best. If GNOME needs this kind of direction in order to be here, let it be. We'll see how that's gonna fly, though.