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>having recently spent some time learning it and updating my Linux skills It has gotten better over time. If you're just updating it now you're probably not ha
by traverseda 7y ago
>having recently spent some time learning it and updating my Linux skills
It has gotten better over time. If you're just updating it now you're probably not having nearly as rough a time of it as you would back when it was first being pushed. The documentation was pretty terrible and things would break randomly a fair bit. I've had multiple occasions where my networking just stopped working due to systemd components.
One thing I still find annoying is how "enterprise-ey" it is. There's no "put all your unit files here" easy to look at folder, you need to first use some systemd specific command to find out exactly which of the many many sub folders the unit file lives in. There's also a tendency to split configuration across many different files, which I guess is how we always did it but somehow seems more annoying when coupled with the whole "you don't get to know where the unit file is" system. Like one service could have 3 or 4 different unit files if it's complicated, if it relies on socket activation or mount points or times or anything like that.
One of my biggest (practical) complaints these days is simply that everything is spread out all over the filesystem.
- thu2111 7y agoYeah that's true. I don't really understand yet why timers and sockets are in separate files to services.