Dat Guy

You do, I won’t. Maybe I’m not misanthropic enough.

I measured Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 a while ago and I wish it was an exaggeration. Glad there are alternatives. I told you there were people who are paid for that. At least you got my point now. Windows and macOS have very decent OS-level GUI APIs. Of course you could just shove a bunch of frameworks upon it and be done with your day, or you use what’s there and still have nice GUIs. Having efficient software is a reason. It’s good to know that you have enough money to buy a new computer every few years so you can run the latest software which can’t do much more than 90s text editors but will still eat magnitudes more resources just because the developers don’t care. Many people can’t.

Statements like this are the exact reason why today’s software is written this way: a text editor eats half a GiB of RAM while idling, two web browser windows force you to close one other application so you won’t run out of resources… I know, “we” (who?) “all” have “unlimited resources” now. That’s not because computers have become any faster - it’s because software has become greedy.

In your company, maybe. It might surprise you to learn that there are companies specialized in making code efficient.

Why does anyone even buy a special keyboard if they're afraid it can't be used for a certain task? We don't.

Which is why people exist who are paid for that.

Some (including me) would say that it's overblown.

Luckily, that's not your task. Gentoo, Void and Slackware are the only three Linux distributions I find acceptable.

Ah, right, but still, not using systemd-boot (they seem to have absorbed gummiboot) is not the same thing as not using systemd.

It does not, because systemd is not a bootloader.

I am well aware of that, but it took them quite some work (and time).

I do not deny this. I also see a huge technical debt with systemd which you obviously don’t. No company or group chose systemd “for easy use”. Excessive lobbying by Red Hat and the narrow ties with GNOME made systemd hard to avoid, that’s a different thing.

Point proven.

You cannot remove systemd from Arch without massive work.

You'd probably like that. But I understand that you don't really care about wasting resources. You have enough of them. For my part, I consider this discussion to be fruitless and will therefore withdraw from it.