SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 9 months agoi find it's a great tool.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square206fedilinkarrow-up1763arrow-down138
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minus-squareepat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·9 months agoBut systemd is not a single tool, nor a single binary, it’s a collection of tools.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·9 months agoI believe their retort would be “name one thing systemd does well”
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoThat is a bit like asking “name one thing that coreutils does well” or “name one thing GNU does well”.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoThe joke being “systemd does everything poorly”. First heard someone say this about X and Wayland. People were saying Wayland violated Unix philosophy and the speaker said “name one thing X does well” lol.
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoSystemd might not be perfect but it certainly does every single thing init scripts did better than any init script.
But systemd is not a single tool, nor a single binary, it’s a collection of tools.
I believe their retort would be “name one thing systemd does well”
That is a bit like asking “name one thing that coreutils does well” or “name one thing GNU does well”.
The joke being “systemd does everything poorly”. First heard someone say this about X and Wayland. People were saying Wayland violated Unix philosophy and the speaker said “name one thing X does well” lol.
Systemd might not be perfect but it certainly does every single thing init scripts did better than any init script.