> I still spent weeks this year trying to sort out what magic combination of alsa, and pipewire and pulse-audio and wireplumber setting, configs and launch timings would get HDMI audio to not come up muted on a mini PC with integrated Radeon graphics in Ubuntu.
This sounds very much like an edge case. Why didn't you use Windows or MacOS on the mini PC instead? Was it because you were unable to do so?
> Or how about the huge fight that systemd has been (and continues to be).
That fight was over pretty much when Devuan and Artix formed.
> If we imagine a world where os init was regulated by the EU,
The EU would only be interested in regulating this if it were an OS init controlled by a monopoly abusing their position.
This sounds very much like an edge case. Why didn't you use Windows or MacOS on the mini PC instead? Was it because you were unable to do so?
> Or how about the huge fight that systemd has been (and continues to be).
That fight was over pretty much when Devuan and Artix formed.
> If we imagine a world where os init was regulated by the EU,
The EU would only be interested in regulating this if it were an OS init controlled by a monopoly abusing their position.