Why the ever loving fuck does an init system even need a user database?
Honest to God, if FIFA were giving out a World “Understanding UNIX” Prize, Poettering would be the inaugural, and only, winner. Never in the field of operating systems has one man driven so much enshittification through sheer force of cluelessness coupled with supreme arrogance. And in a world that Steve Ballmer still occupies, that’s one hell of an accolade.
Kissaki@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Systemd is more than an init system. Systemd was designed to be different from previous Unix-style single-/narrow-purpose services. Many distros making the switch seems to indicate that such a switch had significant enough upsides or necessities. No?
I read an article about why Systemd became what it is, and why it makes sense, and that made sense to me. Integration and a fully designed system has advantages over disconnected utilities and systems you have to connect and negotiate, especially on system- and boot-up level concerns.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Other init systems are able to handle those issues without requiring the absolutely insane amount of scope creep that systemd exhibits though.
Vocalize8711@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That comes with the price of lower reliability, highly non-linear behaviour and a central point of failure (or control). But, its thr user’s choice.