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> Can someone explain to me the hate for systemd other than: "It's trying to do too much" "I hate Poettering" "I prefer things to stay the same, that's why I us
by Smithalicious 7y ago
> Can someone explain to me the hate for systemd other than: "It's trying to do too much" "I hate Poettering" "I prefer things to stay the same, that's why I use a ThinkPad from 2008"
These are all perfectly valid reasons, you can't just hand-wave them away. The way you phrase them makes them semi-strawmen but they're just the equivalent of conventional wisdom: "do one thing well", "don't put all your eggs in one basket" and "don't fix what isn't broken".
And also, my ThinkPad is from 2012, thank you very much.
- majewsky 7y agoJust to be clear, "I hate Poettering" is a perfectly valid reason, and not at all ad hominem?
- Smithalicious 7y ago"I hate Poettering" is an ad hominem, but also a strawman. It's perfectly legitimate to not trust Poettering, or anyone else for that matter, to have such an individual influence over the entire FOSS ecosystem.