"there isnt enough information from the original poster to troubleshoot
anything"
Exactly; this was my point. :)
"working directly for the free software foundation"
Maybe you have me confused with someone else? I have never worked for the
FSF. Trisquel's fearless leader Rubén a.k.a. quidam does; he's here:
https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board
Obviously anyone can run (or not run) whatever software they want. And: That
obviously includes systemd as well, since it's also software. This is so
obvious (to me) that I don't think it needed to be said but there it is.
The same goes for whatever distro someone uses since that is, also, really a
collection of software.
But: One should at least be honest about the reason that they're not using a
given program. Or leaving a distro. "I just don't like it" is probably a
valid reason but there is probably a more descriptive underlying reason
beyond "I just don't like it." But: Blaming a program for system crashes or
other problems seems not so much. Because, with troubleshooting, that can be
proven to be an objectively a true or false thing. But there seems so much
dislike of systemd (or perhaps that's only my perception due to the adage
about squeaky wheels) that it automatically gets blamed for everything by
default. In this case the thread seemed to start off with an automatic blame
of systemd for their computer's ills.
If they'd left with "I'm leaving Trisquel because I just don't like systemd"
I probably would not have commented at all, but of course that isn't their
stated reason. Their stated reason isn't that they don't like systemd but
because it's causing their system to crash. I'm not sure how they arrived at
that conclusion because, as you agreed, there isn't enough information to go
on.
"I will post here again if I more confident that it was in fact systemd"
seems to help confirm that they don't even know that it was in fact systemd.
Maybe they don't have the necessary skills to do the proper troubleshooting
(but the collective Trisquel community does) but they're jumping to that
conclusion and it's being blamed as the cause as if it were nonetheless.
And so: The second part of my original message was intended only as a
commentary on this "blame systemd by default" thing and not to be
condescending (or anything else) to anyone. I'm sorry if it came across that
way.
