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Man, the article do be kinda salty in the beginning. Especially with the author calling Stallman’s fans “fossbros.” Anyway, to the actual arguments.

…non-Systemd distributions must patch them to run without Systemd.

Well, there are many other things to patch in Linux-based systems:

• Wayland support
• Package manager support (KHE-KHEM, NixOS, KHE-KHEM)
• C library support
• audio support (other than PulseAudio there are also sndio and PipeWire)
• backports
• and other things

Anyway, all of this is irrelevant because the argument is not for calling it systemd+Linux but for calling it Linux. Which is flawed by default. At minimum what would make sense is calling it a “Linux-based Unix-like.” Which isn’t exactly a name. More like a vague discription.