Selecting text doesn’t work in most multi-column pdfs and good OCR cost money. And if the original source is lost and you want an exact copy in word, the OCR tools need to be really good at guessing whitespace-to-line ratio, because pdf is only an output format and not a processing format.

For most other converting needs, there’s pandoc, imagemagick and ffmpeg.

Security is actually where Systemd has troubles generally. It has more CVE tgan all other init together. And reliability (esp. starting order of services) is another weak point.

We’ve been through this, if you don’t like it for some reason, use something else.

My god. Yes, we’ve been through this. You can’t just replace Systemd on most distros, because to have the alternatives in the repo, they would have to provide a bunch of shims and wrappers or have two different repos entirely. This is why i dislike Systemd, btw.

And before you start with Gentoo; yes, there it works, because it’s source based and Openrc is basically the wrapper.

For boot and power down, create a service to log it.

For the others, an elogind script might be what you look for.

That brings me to my question, is there a future where this isn’t the case? And what would be required to get there?

Some kind of service where vendors can shove their propietary hacks of drivers in your face (as DKMS), like on Windows.

But nobody wants that.

I understand people who game on windows and need 240hz

I don’t. Isn’t this just a numbers game? Above 100hz should be unnoticable even for sensitive people.

Because the “kde” package is a meta-package that has all the utilities of a KDE-install too, while the “plasma” package has only the desktop.

That’s a backend job tho.