• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      6 months ago

      I mean it should kind of already be something like GNU/SystemD/X11/PipeWire/Linux, I guess.

      It’s not like the GNU utils are the only massive integral part of the OS. I think GNU/Linux caught on squarely because many people follow Stallman, and that’s how he wants people to refer to it.

    • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
      4425·
      6 months ago

      Systemd makes life easy. It also makes Linux more teachable. I like accessibility and don’t even mind this

      • topperharlie@lemmy.world
        246·
        6 months ago

        hard disagree. life with plain text logs and daemon init scripts was so easy and nice. But we can’t have nice things…

        • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
          182·
          6 months ago

          You know what’s nice? Being able to sit down at any Linux distro and being able to set up and configure services without Googling how to use that particular distro’s init system.

      • herrvogel@lemmy.world
        205·
        6 months ago

        But it’s so unbearably slow.

        Me when my computer that has a typical uptime of 37 days boots up in 7 seconds with systemd instead of 5.5 seconds with runit: 😡😡😡😡

      • lengau@midwest.social
        31·
        6 months ago

        I’m not on the systemd hate train by any means, but I don’t understand how this is any improvement over pkexec

        • NekkoDroid@programming.dev
          2·
          6 months ago

          I don’t understand how this is any improvement over pkexec

          That has the same problem as sudo: the SUID bit is set for it.

          The fact that run0 uses polkit is more of a byproduct that this kinda authentication is already done with polkit all over the place in systemd. You can have individual subcommand accessible to different users (for example everyone can systemctl status, but systemctl reboot needs to be in the wheel group) which is why its generally used within systemd already. And it wouldn’t surprise me if again you can do it with this as well, limiting what commands can unconditionally run, need prompt or are completely blocked.

        • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’m unclear from the documentation, does pkexec work under non-GUI contexts?

          • lengau@midwest.social
            4·
            6 months ago

            As long as you have polkit setup to work in terminal sessions, yes. This is pretty standard these days, though not particularly widely used.