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There's a significant segment of the community that seems to be afraid of anything that fundamentally rethinks an old subsystem, I believe in large part because
by AsyncAwait 6y ago
There's a significant segment of the community that seems to be afraid of anything that fundamentally rethinks an old subsystem, I believe in large part because it forces them to learn new skills and they're been able to get paid rather handsomely thus far with their teenage-learned Unix skills.
It's a form of gatekeeping.
In my house, PulseAudio powers an entire wireless speaker setup, (except the speakers are actual high-quality bookshelfs, rather than say an Echo and I don't have to wiretap my house).
systemd is another project they love to hate despite what came before being an unreadable, inconsistent mess of variable quality shell scripts that came nowhere close to what systemd provides with its declarative services.
- indigo945 6y agoTo be fair, while systemd really does provide something that SysV init never could, it is hardly without flaws. In the past, it has had several severe security problems (up to and including privilege escalation vulnerabilities) that the developers have not always handled well. It's a "move fast and break things" kind of software, which in the realm of essential operating system components is not a good quality. I agree on pulseaudio though, my only real gripe with that is documentation.
- catdog 6y ago> I agree on pulseaudio though, my only real gripe with that is documentation. Yep not great but still better than that confusing mess called asoundrc.
- catdog 6y agoOn top of that PulseAudio appeared to be quite buggy at the beginning for quite some amount time, even after distributions started defaulting to it. I have read that most of those issues were actually driver bugs but that did not stop it getting a bad reputation. I think this bad reputation is also part of the reason why the hate on systemd escalated that much.