Did you even read my comment? You are attacking a strawman. > You take something that's […] easy to understand for yourself, and somehow generalize it to every

Did you even read my comment? You are attacking a strawman. > You take something that's […] easy to understand for yourself, and somehow generalize it to everyone. "If it's easy for me, it is easy for everyone" No. I am taking something that‘s easy for me, and suggest making it easy for everybody. > The better question is why should a layperson ever need to know about systemd in the first place. They shouldn‘t, and I did not say so. That‘s the strawman. Does an average Windows user know about the NT kernel? No, and he does not need to. > When designing products for end users who are not technical, the overriding design goal should be easiness and reliability. I agree. > having to learn about systemd, by definition makes the product/system not easy. You would not have to learn it though. You could just flip a switch in the GUI. > they should not even have to learn about its existence. And they would not have to. I don‘t know how my car works, and I don‘t need to. I can use the simple interface (steering wheel, pedals, shift) which is exposed to me. > A system where editing text files can make or break the system > You edit a text file. Again, complete strawman. You would not edit text files.