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(2014) Does the same hold true of today? Or have we simply learned to live with systemd? Slackware is one of the last "major" (or maybe just "oldest") distros

• jauntywundrkind 2y ago
  It's not perfect but wow, a consistent, easy-to-use tool to manage services, mounts, sockets, network, resolving, boot, seats, and more: we mostly love it. The new world is so much better. Every individual service was a snowflake in the old world & every setup unique & unlike, everything system bailed together crudely at the whim of a sysop. More capabilities get added all the time in fairly smart unobtrusive ways. Features like sandboxing, temporary users, encryption, ulimits, priorities & capabilities, cgroups all just "drop in" with no effort, vastly increasing our ability to run services well & securely, without having to hand code ea h service. There's just so many people a decade in having a fine time, who haven't had issues, who see that this is such a higher order more refined state & culture. Versus the wild nomadic dispersed bands of practitioners we once were. The doomer prophets are still around to show up & sing tales of woe, and there are real issues & things not perfect for sure, but wow, the universe is so so so much better with systemd than the tumult & chaos vacuum we suffered in before. Dare to make things, even if not perfect.