• SavvyWolf
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    838 hours ago

    “I hate systemd, it’s bloated and overengineered” people stay, perched precariously on their huge tower of shell scripts and cron jobs.

    • @barsquid
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      84 hours ago

      If systemd was only managing services there would be less opposition. People opposed don’t want a single thing doing services and boot and user login and network management and…

      • Something Burger 🍔
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        4 hours ago

        Are they also opposed to coreutils being a single project with dozens of executables doing different things?

        • @barsquid
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          54 hours ago

          IDK, ask them. There are some in this thread. I’m addressing the strawman argument that people against it are luddites set in their ways over their beloved cron jobs.

    • @[email protected]
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      165 hours ago

      “I hate systemd, it’s bloated and overengineered”

      And built poorly by people who don’t work well with others and then payola’ed onto the world.

      people stay, perched precariously on their huge tower of shell scripts and cron jobs.

      Fucking UNIX is shell scripts and cron jobs, skippy. Add xinetd and you’re done.

      • HubertManne
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        23 hours ago

        yeah I just hate the move away from flat text files honestly. Its one thing I did not like about windows NT with the registry. databasing up the config.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 hour ago

          Which part of systemd’s config is not text-based? The only “database” it uses for configuration is the filesystem

    • @[email protected]
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      277 hours ago

      huge tower of shell scripts and cron jobs.

      That’s bloat. I start all my services manually according to my needs. Why start cupsd BEFORE I need to print anything?