[GekkePrutser]

Is it really surprising that we're conservative? Most of what comes out of big tech right now is focused on monetisation and control and when it comes to FOSS a lot of companies are trying to get their IP on the map.

For example Ubuntu is trying very hard to push snaps. In contrast to flatpaks only they can run the store for it so there's clearly a motivation of vendor lock-in.

This kind of thing makes me suspicious and more critical of new tech. I'd first want to see if it offers me any value. In this case I don't see the big benefit even though flatpak doesn't seem to carry the lock-in that snap does. But I like the optimisation of dynamic libraries and the way I can update openssl once and have all the apps patched that use it.

Systemd is a different story. It's open enough but a bit too heavy and complex for my liking. It's not bad though and I use it on some of my boxes. Alpine is working on an alternative based on s6 and I'll probably end up using that when it matures.

Anyway I didn't choose Linux/BSD because I cared about having the same as everyone else :) Being able to deviate from the beaten track is one of the benefits of these. I currently use FreeBSD because it has the least corporate meddling right now.