[argv_turk]

Just installed Ubuntu server on one of my mining rigs. I chose it because I wanted something with proprietary driver support out of the box. Then I spent the next 4 hours on the irc trying to figure out why on reboot my machine was hanging for two minutes complaining about my network. Google was no help, or the support channels. My /etc/interfaces file loooked fine.

In the end it was a missing ifupdown package, but systemd is complicated enough to make me want to pull my hair out.

Please when are we going to get a sane init system again?

[JdeBP]

In fairness, the services that provide Ubuntu's/Debian's /etc/network/interfaces mechanism are Debian-supplied things and not parts of systemd at all.

[vletrmx]

My guess is the controversy around this issue makes it difficult to discuss. What I like about this article on various init systems is the relatively objective comparison of the different features and approaches of previous inits.