So the admins should really not rant about systemd but complain about the distributions who switched to systemd or about their employers who force them to use such distributions.
Or just buckle down and view a new chance to learn something as an enjoyable opportunity. Dammit people we aren’t paid for being experts but the ability to become expert-like in new areas.
Re:Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
by regularfry on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:55PM
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More than one thing can be bad.
Contrary to “popular misconception”, Linux is not a settler's freehold where every holdout makes their own rules.
Admins have to work with a diversity of systems. They can choose how to setup new ones, but they have to work with a range of them. What everyone does has an effect on everyone else. If some distro introduces a new way of doing things, it has some chance of ending up affecting a lot of people - they might have to adapt to also support that way, or handle it in some way.
In that way we are a village, things are connected, and that’s why there is some degree of "social control" - looking across the neighbor’s fence and meddling with their way of solving the problem - it can in some sense become ours, if we are unlucky.
Fortunately, we can relentlessly copy good solutions from others in the village too.