> systemd isn't that bad, even if it did want to constantly kill my tmux server session ::shakes-fist::
You can disable this in logind.conf
> Desktop Linux seems stale or abandoned all over the place. … But overall I feel like 10 years ago things were more exciting and would change all the time with new features and functionality.
Sometimes it feels a bit like that. On the other hand a lot of things work a lot better than 10 years ago. Maybe we simply reached a point where you basically have what you need most of the time and new features are either not necessary, minor refinements instead of big jumps or more specialized so you don't notice them. Then the Linux desktop still has this fragmentation problem where a lot of work is duplicated unnecessarily and the problem of breaking libraries/frameworks where applications without the manpower to keep up simply degrade or outright die.
> Maybe it's the overall slowing down of the PC market. The people who should have grown into maintaining all this are doing something else. Like when the Mule messed up the Seldon Plan, smart phones have wrecked the Free Software plan. Everyone is too busy looking at Instagram or playing Candy Crush to write Free Software nowadays.
Yeah the catastrophic failure of a true free software ecosystem on the smart phone while starting so promising may have pushed the moral down. The desktop may also feel a bit boring for many now. It basically does the job and you now have things like the web, smart phones or incredibly cheap and capable embedded devices which may seem more interesting to them.
You can disable this in logind.conf
> Desktop Linux seems stale or abandoned all over the place. … But overall I feel like 10 years ago things were more exciting and would change all the time with new features and functionality.
Sometimes it feels a bit like that. On the other hand a lot of things work a lot better than 10 years ago. Maybe we simply reached a point where you basically have what you need most of the time and new features are either not necessary, minor refinements instead of big jumps or more specialized so you don't notice them. Then the Linux desktop still has this fragmentation problem where a lot of work is duplicated unnecessarily and the problem of breaking libraries/frameworks where applications without the manpower to keep up simply degrade or outright die.
> Maybe it's the overall slowing down of the PC market. The people who should have grown into maintaining all this are doing something else. Like when the Mule messed up the Seldon Plan, smart phones have wrecked the Free Software plan. Everyone is too busy looking at Instagram or playing Candy Crush to write Free Software nowadays.
Yeah the catastrophic failure of a true free software ecosystem on the smart phone while starting so promising may have pushed the moral down. The desktop may also feel a bit boring for many now. It basically does the job and you now have things like the web, smart phones or incredibly cheap and capable embedded devices which may seem more interesting to them.