This is bad news for those of us who were not only looking to give old mobile hardware a longer lifespan, but simultaneously obtain privacy and security while doing so.
The arguments provided in the blog post are rather faint and give a vibe of “holding on to last straws”, as other distributions and even BSD’s have managed to run both GNOME and KDE fine, even before pmOS.
For readers unfamiliar with systemd’s drawbacks, these resources can serve as good starting points:
This is bad news for those of us who were not only looking to give old mobile hardware a longer lifespan, but simultaneously obtain privacy and security while doing so.
The arguments provided in the blog post are rather faint and give a vibe of “holding on to last straws”, as other distributions and even BSD’s have managed to run both GNOME and KDE fine, even before pmOS.
For readers unfamiliar with systemd’s drawbacks, these resources can serve as good starting points:
without-systemd.org // nosystemd.org
Out of curiosity: Can you point to a log of the communication with the Alpine team?