• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    My understanding is that some people are die hards to the software philosophy of “do one thing really well”. systemd at the very least does many different things. These people would prefer to chain a bunch of smaller programs together to replicate the same functionality of systemd since every program in the chain fits the philosophy of “does one thing really well”.

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      7 months ago

      For me it’s 3 things

      • Do one thing and do it well
      • Everything is a file in Linux
      • human readable logs

      Systemd breaks all three of though by being monolithic and binary. It actually makes you have to jump through more hoops to do things in certain cases. I understand it’s a mindset shift but it really starts making it feel more like Windows with how it works and the registry and event log.