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by bitwize 3451 days ago
> The way it was pushed on distros was problematic, in my opinion.

The technical term for this is "precommitment", and it comes from Tom Schelling. It's actually quite advantageous: once you're precommitted to a particular direction, you're emotionally invested in getting the most out of it. By precommitting you to systemd, the distros hope to get the community to leverage systemd's benefits.

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Sounds like a restatement of Thatcher's TINA (There Is No Alternative)...