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by wtallis 3679 days ago
> "I'm surprised there's still so much rage about systemd. It's not a bad solution to the problem."

You can only be surprised if you've got blinders on. Systemd has some real technical superiority but also some questionable or worse technical decisions. Beyond that, it has a truly horrible community around it that has an incredible track record for being bad at justifying shaking things up and bad at easing migration pains and bad at responding to valid criticisms or accommodating use cases different from their own. A project can't trigger flamewars this reliably and be innocent in the matter. You don't see the same kind of social and organizational conflict surrounding the major Linux display stack overhauls over the past decade.

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GPL vs BSD has triggered flamewars reliably and for decades. Which one is guilty?