[teddyh]

Let me just say that I disagree: I am squarely in the former camp – I started with SunOS 4 in 1992, learned to use the Internet before the WWW, and am a long-time GNU advocate, and I am also a professional system administrator. I like systemd just fine. In fact, I started using it at home and at work just as soon as the package became available in Debian 7 (wheezy).

I think, however, that you have a point in that some people ascribe some mystical properties to the design of _nix and _nix-like systems. I have never done this, perhaps because I remember the early days of OS/platform wars (Amiga or Atari? PC or console? Unix or VMS?), first on BBSes, then on Usenet. I also, early on, read the Unix-Haters Handbook, and I found it enlightening, even though it is not always spot-on.

I leave all die-hard advocates with this quote:

“All Software Sucks, All Hardware Sucks”

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