[xkekjrktllss]

The so-called "Linux enthusiast community" is better described as the Linux corporate enterprise community. Understanding this makes your comment make a lot more sense. The "specific applications" are in fact merely the priorities of the giant corporations who fund the overwhelming majority of Linux development for the purpose of accumulating profit.

[dralley]

That's certainly not my experience. Practically every rant about systemd includes the idea that evil corporations are trying to force it on everyone rather than letting them use some random login daemon whose last commit was in 2008.

Corporate interests are generally biased in favor of avoiding hyper-specific modifications that mess with their own economies of development scaling, not seeking them out.

[xkekjrktllss]

Rants are very different from actually influencing the software. The same people rarely care for the alternatives to systemd.

[eternityforest]

The corporate enterprise community is who appears to create most of the attempts at user friendly, one size fits all, stable standards, because.... that's what seems to sell, and what saves development budgets not having to support lots of different OSes, as Windows has shown.

Many of the non corporate hobbyists are fine with everything needing tweaking and maintenance, they chose Linux specifically because they want to tweak stuff.

[xkekjrktllss]

Not sure what point you're trying to make but the "non corporate hobbyists" are ineffective to the point of irrelevance when it comes to Linux core development. Everything they do is downstream from the influence of giant corporations.