imagine going to a McDonald’s and complaining to the waiters about all the unhealthy food

I bet Styropyro has a box of them tucked away somewhere. His laser defense turrets will have unmatched accuracy.

That bar is so low it’s practically a tripping hazard in hell.

I’m pretty sure their arguments boil down to “big company bad” as systemd is developed by Red Hat. Putting a single entity’s products in charge of several basic functions of the computer (like booting, init, daemons, networking) is seen as a bad idea, especially Red Hat which disgraced itself by making the RHEL source code available only to customers (which does not violate the license), but so far I don’t know of any solid evidence of security holes caused by either incompetence or malice.

I can’t believe you forgot to mention the worst offender.

Packaging.

For some reason, Linux insists on the asinine practice of hypercentralisation where you’re only allowed to install programs from a single approved website. The rest of us are living in 2025 but Linuxists seem to be stuck in 1984. It is literally baked into the system (with a healthy dose of trademark infringement (I mean, Pacman? Seriously?)). Besides the obvious restrictions on user freedom, it would only take one bad actor to call into question the safety of the whole walled garden. Trust is the user’s prerogative. A truly open ecosystem would let the user decide whether to get their software from Microsoft, from a third-party Russian website, the seven seas, from a lost-and-found USB stick, whatever.

(also, I don’t want to be That Guy, but not having a large language model baked into the kernel for optimal performance in 2025 is fucking stupid)