I was happy enough when distros starting using it as an init system but after this week trying to get Xubuntu 18.04 to accept a simple thing like honoring my static DNS servers, I'm about to give up my 15 year love affair with the OS. Usually I would set these via my router and the OS wouldn't really have a choice in the matter but a new modem from my ISP has custom firmware by the Australian equivalent of the NSA my ISP, so no go there. What seems like a simple editing exercise of a couple of systemd files files turns into a head scratching realization that no matter what I do, systemd decides to listen on port 53 to my router settings. It's almost like the NSA and ASIC have some sort of deal where they want someone wants to collect my DNS requests and are using systemd to make it easier for themselves to do it. Simple config lines like cache= yes/no and StubListener= yes/no mean nothing to little systemd. DNS= and FallbackDNS= are used but only when little systemd decides it wants to. As a result my ISP dns leaks like sieve and Lamehard Pottering says its all for the good of grandma who just wants to get to facebook. The more DNS queries and caching the better.
So the only way forward is to disable the resolver and Ubuntu's own sloppy turd it has added to the mix. Then my VPN client doesn't work. I can all be fixed but only after find the holy grail of advice that is current for your latest distro image.
Well fuck you Leonard and fuck you Canonical for doing your part. I guess I could use windows where the memory is read directly and uploaded to government Microsoft servers every 30 seconds but hey, I can set my fucking DNS as static there no worries. So it's back to 16.04(supported till 2023), MX Linux or PcLinuxOS for me when I update my computer in the next few months.
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