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This strategy is how I imagine the "least painful" transition from init to systemd in a distro would go: someone would make the change, tell everyone to update, and then ask if anyone noticed.

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That actually sounds like the most painful transition possible as scripts would start failing and admins couldn't use their tools anymore. Would be entertaining to watch though.

Linux users tend to be aware of update contents. They read the changelogs, review the list of packages that will be updated, etc.

I've been using a mac at my new job, and a dialog box popped up today asking if I wanted to update. The options were something like "Not now" and "Update all". How am I supposed to know if I want to update if I don't even know what's going to be updated?

The App Store's "Updates" tab shows which apps are getting updated, and can even show build notes.

Click on the text box (not on the buttons) and it will bring up the update software and let you know what it wants to update.

But then you'd go to add / remove / change an init script and realize that the world had been completely changed underneath you.

And your personalized init scripts, for applications not available in the repositories or for applications you want launched in a different way... would just break.

I feel like on bootup you'd realize that your work was broken.

I was thinking about this and I guess _maybe_ if you didn't customize anything during boot/init it would work from your distro's install...very golden path thinking there...

Sort of reminds me of Windows.

That would be like if Kraft replaced the macaroni with nails without mentioning it, and then later asked if anyone noticed.

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