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The biggest problem people have with systemd is that it’s constantly growing, taking on more functions and becoming a dependency of more software. People joke that some day you won’t be using Linux anymore, but GNU/systemd, (or as they’ve taken to calling it, GNU plus systemd) because it’s ever-growing from a simple init daemon into a significant percentage of an entire operating system.

People worry that some day, you won’t be able to run a Linux system that’s compatible with much of the software developed for Linux without using systemd. Whether that’s a realistic worry or not I don’t know, and I don’t really have a horse in the systemd VS not-systemd race, but I can appreciate being worried that systemd might end up becoming a hard requirement for a Linux system in a way that nothing else really is - you can substitute GNOME for KDE, X11 for Wayland (or Mir, I guess), PulseAudio for PipeWire and most stuff will still work, so the idea that systemd could become as non-negotiable an element of a Linux system as the Linux kernel itself rubs people the wrong way, as it functionally makes Linux with systemd a different target platform entirely to Linux with another init daemon.

Arch is good for a machine that gets used a lot, but for something where you need stability or to be able to run it for a long time between restarts and updates, something Debian-based is preferable. Just not modern Ubuntu because Snaps are performance-sapping nightmares.

If you want one for your phone, Feedly is pretty good. On desktop, I use Liferea.

Seconding Liferea.

Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list.

These are the kind of provisions that totalitarian regimes would absolutely benefit from and make regular use of if France or another “western democracy” forced browser developers to develop it. Consider the role that the internet has had in popular uprisings of the last 15 years and its utility for accessing information that oppressive governments want to hide from their citizens.

It might not be as bad as Vichy France or the Rassemblement National, but these provisions definitely pose a major threat to global freedom and would be a gift to the likes of China, Iran and Russia (and I’m sure plenty of US state legislatures would use this for their own ends, looking at you Florida).