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"removal of the nasty nest of shell scripts" What one person finds nasty another may find sexy.

• zanny 12y ago
  Then feel free to use shell based init. Meanwhile, there is a strong concensus in Linux distros that the maintainers thought shell scripts were not sexy, and systemd unit files were, and thus everyone has / is switching.
  • jqm 12y ago
    "Everyone" has not switched nor is "everyone" switching. Most distros are yes. Some are not. Personally I like shell scripts and plan to continue using them as long as feasible. They work, and when/if they don't, I can usually find out why. "Strong consensus" might be good argument for some people. I personally find it a fallacious appeal to popularity.
    • davrosthedalek 12y ago
      Additionally,I would argue that distros are switching because of gnome, not because they like systemd so much.
      • Tuna-Fish 12y ago
        I'd like to point out that logind can be used without systemd using systemd-shim. So you can use fully featured GNOME without systemd.
• pantalaimon 12y ago
  Yea it's called a fetish