Back in the day I got into the habit of removing avahi and pulseaudio when I could because all they gave me were issues. Only later did I learn they were both b

Back in the day I got into the habit of removing avahi and pulseaudio when I could because all they gave me were issues. Only later did I learn they were both by Poettering. When systemd was pushed, I started getting a whole new class of issues (due to renaming of drive and interface names - a problem systemd was designed to fix) which I never had in my entire Linux life. Nowadays it's not like that. Though I still get some systemd task running on a timer or indefinetely keeping the system from booting or shutting down. When the timer ends you realize it wasn't an essential thing after all. And from a few posts of his I had read when systemd was being introduced one thing struck me. All of the posts of his that I read where he was defending something of his, the post would be full of blatant straw man arguments. It was very odd.