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    i find it's a great tool. (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    To ask a different question... what was wrong with initd? I'm the better part of a decade stale at this point but I don't know that I ever ran into an edge case that initd couldn't handle with a little massaging

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    When systemd first showed up there wasn’t much parallelized init systems. People managing complex systems with many services may find the tools of systemd make their lives easier. Of course, nowadays all that complex multi service machine stuff is containerized and none of those containers run systemd 🤔

    If I were gonna psychologize it, poettering and kay typify what the Linux user of the 0s felt when they actually looked at what windows of the time had going on under the hood. “Look at you, tla username, pathetic creature of twenty text files under a trench coat!”

    The problem with that sentiment is that there’s an honesty to recognizing and accepting that you’re not too far removed from the z80 and it keeps you from believing all this computer stuff is more than it’s cracked up to be.

    No one who’s happy with python also keeps a loaded gun next to the server for when it acts up and that’s the problem.