Here’s something that’s both surprising and, in a way, not surprising at all, especially after yesterday’s announcement from KaOS, a distribution long known for its deep commitment to the KDE Plasma desktop, that it plans to move away from it. The main reason cited was KDE’s reliance on systemd in a specific component.
As expected, the news quickly gained traction, prompting KDE to clarify its dependence on systemd and which parts of the desktop environment rely on it. In a post on KDE’s Reddit community titled “A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk ‘the KDE is forcing systemd!’ hoax“, the contributor described the claims as misinformation and provided a short FAQ clarifying the project’s position.
Systemd ist great and people who hate it, are also likely the same ones running openbox or a similar ancient window manager.
KDE should do what enables best user experience, not bend over for radicals stuck in the past.
I think KDE should force systemd.
They should run tvwm. It’s a great window manager, I ran it for years, in the 90s.