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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 19 2014, @12:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-either-love-it-or-hate-it dept.

The good people over at Infoworld have published a story outlining why they feel systemd is a disaster.

Excerpt from Infoworld:

While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there. systemd is becoming the Svchost of Linux—which I don't think most Linux folks want. You see, systemd is growing, like wildfire, well outside the bounds of enhancing the Linux boot experience. systemd wants to control most, if not all, of the fundamental functional aspects of a Linux system—from authentication to mounting shares to network configuration to syslog to cron. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures what's happening behind the scenes.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by morgauxo on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:59PM

    by morgauxo (2082) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:59PM (#83135)

    "Technically, the advice on MOST support forums is "LOL you suck newb. Learn how Linux works and come back when you're less of an idiot."

    I'm a bit skeptical of you here. Have you experienced this or are you just repeating old FUD? Personally I don't ask a lot of questions but I do Google them. I almost always find other people have already asked it and... even more have answered! On the rare occasion I see an RTFM comment it is one reply among several and the others are more helpful. If people are just answering with "LOL you suck newb" then where are these forum threads that have helped me coming from? That is my anecdotal experience.

    However... maybe forums are not best for everyone. I think many of the masses will never get there answers through a search engine. It is too impersonal. They want someone to hold their hand. Personally this baffles me. When I have a problem I don't want to wait for an answer. I don't want to chat. I want a fix! When I need social interaction I have friends for that.

    But.. I've worked in tech support. (been a while since then thankfully) Some people just don't care that the answer is right there for them to grab. They want someone to hand it to them! Throughout the day they interact with people who they are paying money to. They get smiles and friendly banter from their grocery clerk, bank teller, etc... They call their ISP or their computer manufacturer when they have a problem and expect the person on the phone to treat them like gold. One way or another they paid those people! They don't really like them. They don't really enjoy what they are doing. They are acting the part that gets them paid!

    People answering questions on forums are NOT getting paid. They just for their own reasons want to see that piece of software be used and so they are filling the gaps where documentation might not have been enough for someone. Once that gap is filled they don't want to keep repeating themselves. That makes it a job!!

    Does that mean Linux can't be good for these socialy needy people? No not at all. If you can buy someone to hold your hand through Windows you can buy someone to hold your hand through Linux. Just get a paid distro and someone at the company you bought it from should pretend to like you too!

    Sound a bit like prostitution... well... if you don't like that then just Google it!

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