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> A lot of people hate systemd. I did. I'm still not happy with the way it was forced in, and how the predictions of teething pains of a from scratch init syst
by npsimons 5y ago
> A lot of people hate systemd.
I did. I'm still not happy with the way it was forced in, and how the predictions of teething pains of a from scratch init system being developed by inexperienced developers came true. I still remember the growing pains from PulseAudio, the previous project by the same developers.
But SystemD was a response to the definite problems of past init systems. It might not be the optimal UNIX philosophy architecture, but it's grown into something stable and powerful.
At the end of the day, as a working IT or SWEng professional, you just want to get shit done, so you learn a new abstraction for the zillionth time, put it to practice, and get on with the problem you were trying to solve. Having moved from MS-DOS, to OS/2, to Slackware, to RedHat, then Debian (and staying on Debian for decades, for desktop and server), I trust the Debian devs to put out the most stable and reliable OS I've ever seen.