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[–] hunger@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Either you build a tool that works well with one OS or you build one that works poorly with several.

And it is not as if those other OSes are waiting for new cross-OS init tools: They either seem to be happy with what they got or want something tailored to their own features.