Iām old enough to remember init scriptsā¦ Help! 
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SVR4 Init or BSD Init?
Iām old enough to remember when that was important.
I also remember that Hurd hadnāt been released because they were having trouble running it under emacs.
Strangely I havenāt heard too many similar complaints about systemd.
Package managers predate Linux by a few yearsā¦ But Chocolatey seems to be a reasonable Windows rip off.
Systemd replaces more than just Init scriptsā¦ Syslog, ntpd,ā¦ And it is only just beginning. (I know authentication is something they are looking at adding to systemd)
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Pam works well enough. And frankly its annoying that networking is rolled into systemd when last time i looked there wasnāt any good documentation on it.
PAM? They are working on getting rid of password files, and changing how home directories work.
HAHA, thatās my pointā¦But thanks for clarifying a few things.
Ohhhhh, I like Handy Dandy, thanks.
QUESTION: 
I wonder what the collective noun for Linux users is Iām going to call youā¦ Jockeys
Should I create a Linux Thread in the Lounge for you Linux Jockeys
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Arenāt we all nerds?
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Alright. You Linux people can be mega nerds then 
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Windows users are just lazy and accept all the tracking, unusablility and all other downsides, just because theyāre afraid to make an Ubuntu USB 
Honestly everyone I know, including me, regretted not switching to a Unix like system sooner.
Itās āYou Windows peopleā, not the other way around 
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If you are OK with Debian based distributions Kali is a rolling distribution that comes with some RFID tools by default.
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There is also us windows people who:
A: have to use it for work
B: enjoy gaming without issue (tried it a while ago I.e. within 6months and can still be pretty hard to get games up and running)
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Pah, gamers.
The worst bit is that the company I used to work for expected me to use Windows for all of the administrative crap but I was managing Linux and Unix servers so I either needed good tools or a second desktop.
I went the good tools route simply because I also used it as way to get administrator on my desktop box.
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Dual boot.
Dual boot.
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WINE, WSL or Para virtualization.
There are many possible solutions. Dual booting is probably the most cumbersome and least friendly in a work environment
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I mean sure, itās laziness, but itās not nearly as simple as just setting up a USB lmao. I donāt have the time rn to set up the OS the way I want to, copy over important files, install everything, find and configure alternatives for things that donāt have a Linux version, spend forever troubleshooting when I inevitably make a mistake, etc. Iāve spent years on windows getting everything just the way I want it. Doing the same on Linux isnāt all that appealing
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I do 
My argument is that you donāt really know what you want and just made what you have tolerable.
Once you use a linux, found a good text editor and window manager, and wrote a couple simple convenience scripts youāll never look back.
Whatever, you do you, it was a joke, I donāt actually care what OS you use, just what you use it for.
Use whatever lets you do your stuff.
Then youāre not part of āWindows peopleā you just use it when you have to, thatās normal.
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Lots and lots of the games Iāve tried canāt run under wine for whatever reason. Driver compatability issues ect ect I donāt like it and hate it but not much I can do 
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Ubuntu and Steams Proton stuff are supposed to work well, last time I tried to run my fav game my enemies were invisible tho xD
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It just figured that if you were using Linux you could deal with extra hard mode. 
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