> However regarding servers I agree with the Unix veterans that Unix(-like) systems should be faithful to the KISS philosophy which made Unix so great. Unit fi

> However regarding servers I agree with the Unix veterans that Unix(-like) systems should be faithful to the KISS philosophy which made Unix so great. Unit files are surprisingly powerful and simple and follow KISS quite well (they're easier to maintain). systemd is also not quite as monolithic as some are wont to believe. > Debian and its derived distris took over the server world, and (AFAIK) it accomplished that with SystemV not with systemd. So SystemV is not that bad. This just seems disingenuous. It's almost like arguing we didn't need nginx because the web server market was won by Apache, not nginx. systemd has its warts, I won't deny that, but it seems that most of those opposed to it are opposed strictly on the merit that it's new and different.