I can add the two files required to run a timer in systemd in a couple minutes, but writing the complex incantation to cron for having it do something that is the default in systemd is pure pain and takes me 3 hours of googling

Debian for work and my home machines that I don’t need to be the latest and greatest (nas, media centee).

Arch on personal, éess implrtant machines

And remembering to back up the history, ask me how I know

Why does your question sound like you are prompting an LLM? I sincerily hope we are not transitioning to communicating like this, because if I have to read stuff like this once again I think I will have to get offline indefinitly.

To answer your question only Nostradamus can chew whatever you are asking mate, I think that thinking about what computer produced in two years you should buy in 4 years might be a cool video idea for an upcoming youtube channel, but absolutely useless for anything practical today.

I mean, the ease of use is to be able to choose to reboot IMO. As you say: there is no drawback, just fukken reboot if you don’t have to keep running.

I have to keep my machines running, so you do you, I do I, but if you want to force me to reboot we gonna have issues agreeing mate.

Edit: also, i think linux is not for everyone, i agree that removing choice to allow for braindead usage is a viable policy in other OSs, so putting off people is a feature, not a bug IMO

We don’t babysit users here, I want to never be forced to do anything, nor is sleep a problem on all machines after update.

There already are OSs that remove control from the user and they are not called linux. We do things differently here and that is why it is not for anyone. It might sound elitistic, but it actually is not. There are good reasons to allow choice to the user, because some users need that power. Others don’t and prefer ignorance.

You might be a server that only can reboot at a given time to respect service level agreements with your customers

Yes, i heard it is not good to force

Under linux you have the option to not reboot after an update, use that power wisely.

You did not, so you took a risk and lost.

Why does this headline read like an overstated CV achievement?

All these timers can be tweaked in the systemd confog file. In my lightweight testing VMs for example I set the kill after term to 3 seconds, instead of the default minute and a half.

Cool name for a band

I think the grandparent was being sarchastic mate

Edit: at least I hope

For some people the world is black and white, I think that law is considered bad by everyone, but for some people complaying to state regulation is a crime against humanity itself.

It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between, so adding two lines of code for json support of an age field in a systemd module warrants you to be publicly shamed, called names and probably harrassed irl.

The guy probably just wanted to be able to continue using linux at work, and without that crap he will have to go back to windows

Then i sure hope linux will not be illegal in my country too

Fork it and create a democratic project, nobody is stopping you. Wanna know projects that are very open and democratic? FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Wanna know why they aren’t as popular as linux?

The community is not against compliance, a loud minority is. The implementation is not where discussion needs to happen, as any software dev that had to implement shit they did not agree on, it rarely has a positive effect at this level

Nope, I am a muppet whose livelihood depends on them respecting the law. If you are from one of the godforsaken regions doing stupid laws you should vote against them, I need to comply with your laws because I need to work to feed my family.

You can call me a spineless muppet all you want but I am not the cause stupid laws exists, take it on the californianas for that crap, they elected the idiots doing this. I vote our own idiots and until now they made it clear this bullshit is not on their table, thank you wery much but I did my part.

The fact you have exactly 7 downvotes is hilarious

Yep, then using linux will be illegal, great fucking idea boss