That’s a fallacious argument, opinion discarded

I don’t expect people to make zero mistakes, I expect people to not be belligerent when they make mistakes

You need to calm down

I’m repeating liberal propaganda because I’m a CIA plant, Communism would be thriving if not for us. Happy now? Validated?

Pot, meet kettle.

If you look up, you’ll be able to see my point. You might need binoculars.

I’m bothered by the fact that you made a statement that’s not internally consistent and contradicts itself. Like whatever you like, but if you’re going to cite a reason, be accurate. Don’t be so dense.

His exact words:

Telemetry is important for desktop developers, you can negate it but it’s a fact

I’m going to assume you know what the subject and object of that sentence are. Here’s the thing about how language works on my planet: through the magic of a radical new concept called “context”, we can accurately discern both meaning and normative statements from what people say and how they phrase it. In other words, “It’s a fact that telemetry is important for desktop developers” is an ostensibly descriptive statement that also creates a normative statement in the same way that standing in the sun casts a shadow: it has to, it isn’t optional. It’s “Desktop developers who don’t use telemetry are ignoring something that it’s factual to say is important they not ignore”. Please tell me you get it now, and that you don’t need the rest spoonfed to you.

Is that really a fact? (No.) Wow, it’s crazy how every desktop program that doesn’t use telemetry isn’t any good, according to you.

I don’t like bloat on my hard drive

So you installed GNOME? This is not the checkmate you think it is.

Usage data is a crutch, effective developers can make good software with zero telemetry and did so for several decades.

Dear liberals, you claim you installed “minimal” Ubuntu, yet you use GNOME instead of XFCE. Curious.

It’s pretty funny how they’re trying to characterize a Linux distro as independence from Western tech. The closest we’ve gotten to that idea is TempleOS, not a Linux distro with spyware baked into it.

Anybody who thinks that feature should ever have been included in the first place should be given a dunce cap and a Vsmile

They added features that benefit power users and developers? I’m sure someone at Mozilla will be fired for this soon enough

And yet it’s the only argument you’ll hear. I don’t know what possesses some people to act like critcism of systemd makes you an entitled manchild, I suspect they might be imbeciles.

I dispute the validity of the basis of your argument. Whether or not ease of access to advanced tools will cause problems for people who don’t know what they’re doing is irrelevant, and no design decision should ever be made with that consideration in mind. Whatever happened to RTFM? Put up a warning if you’re worried about it. And you covered that:

And also a warning that is displayed when you start the advanced mode, for example, will not be useful. Nowadays, this will be often ignored.

That is the user’s problem. Efficiency should never be hamstrung in the name of handholding. Ever.

Enjoy your botnet

If such settings are easy to change via a graphical interface, I see the danger that users with insufficient knowledge will tinker with them, which may lead to problems.

I’m guessing you’re one of those people who answers questions on stackoverflow with “Why do you think you need to be able to do that?” instead of an answer.

I don’t like systemd. Reasons:

• broad scope and lots of dependencies are more or less the exact opposite design philosophy of *nix

• putting too many eggs in one basket intrinsically increases the attack vector and also decreases stability

• bloated

Most importantly:

• Gives Red Hat i.e. IBM too much influence over Linux