cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62192988

The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren’t necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days (“surge” because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won’t be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    This drives me absolutely nuts. For my Linux machines, I just type sudo shutdown now and that does the trick no problem. 9 times out of 10 I have a terminal window open anyway.

    But my work laptop running Windows 11? lmao, after deliberately shutting it down on Friday last week, I just pulled it out and opened it up to a prompt from Outlook saying “Do you want to delete everything in ‘Deleted items’?” and a nearly-dead battery. Thanks Microsoft. That’s definitely what I want it to do when I hit “SHUT DOWN”.