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Systemd is never beating the allegations that they're taking over everything. Now they have an installer? Why in the world did they need that? I guess someone who does a lot of automated installations donated money?

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I think it's clear at this point that the allegations don't worry them. They tried debunking them by pointing out that the overwhelming majority of these are separate daemons that are entirely optional, can be packaged separately, and don't affect anybody who doesn't want to use them. The people raging against systemd didn't feel obligated to take those facts into account.

So they're just doing their own thing, and the distro landscape seems a clear indication that their own thing looks pretty compelling to basically every distro with any meaningful market share.

People may as well make the pitch that Linux is "taking over everything".

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