Yeah userspace mess is one i lament getting to know, because it has soured me on the whole Linux-on-desktop thing. Frankly that part is a large contributor to

Yeah userspace mess is one i lament getting to know, because it has soured me on the whole Linux-on-desktop thing. Frankly that part is a large contributor to "consumer" Linux never got any traction beyond Google going all out and making their own (Android and ChromeOS), while the DE people keep "polishing" the UX by introducing yet more dependency kudzus. One example on the top of my head is udisk. First there was udisk1, that had a CLI interface as well as a dbus api. Then came udisk2 that trashed the CLI interface and introduced a new dbus api. And now there is probably some equivalent of udisk3 living inside systemd that has yet another dbus api. And all this for what? Mounting and unmounting removable media...