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It's hard to argue with someone who claims that systemd has zero benefit. You claim unit files are confusing. Let's say we took a Windows programmer who was a
by ambrice 11y ago
It's hard to argue with someone who claims that systemd has zero benefit.
You claim unit files are confusing. Let's say we took a Windows programmer who was a sophomore in CS but didn't have any Unix or Linux experience, show him both systems. Explain how runlevels are handled in systemd vs sysvinit. Show him a systemd unit file vs the equivalent bash script. Explain how systemd tracks the process tree vs sysvinit pid file hack. You spent five minutes trying to figure out systemctl and declared it terrible. It probably took you more than 5 minutes to find /etc/init.d your first time
- rconti 11y agoPerhaps. My complaint is that systemd has not started making any more sense in the year(s) I've been wrestling with it. And it hasn't given me any benefit yet. To most of us, it's change for change's sake, which makes life worse due to the learning curve. If it made life easier for the average end user or the average sysadmin, it would have more defenders.