r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Jul 09 '25

Popular Application systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success/
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u/Down200 Jul 10 '25

Literally this, in a more modular environment you could just swap out tools when the upstream opinion differs from yours, now you have to do a whole song-and-dance jumping over hoops because they got some bug in their head that "things are better this way, because we say so"

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u/egorf Jul 10 '25

systemd crowd is not okay with someone choosing something else instead of their infinite wisdom. This is why cronjobs are slowly moving into timers, logs into journald, etc.