[kzrdude]

yes, people forget that we are a village.

Contrary to “popular misconception”, Linux is not a settler's freehold where every holdout makes their own rules.

Admins have to work with a diversity of systems. They can choose how to setup new ones, but they have to work with a range of them. What everyone does has an effect on everyone else. If some distro introduces a new way of doing things, it has some chance of ending up affecting a lot of people - they might have to adapt to also support that way, or handle it in some way.

In that way we are a village, things are connected, and that’s why there is some degree of "social control" - looking across the neighbor’s fence and meddling with their way of solving the problem - it can in some sense become ours, if we are unlucky.

Fortunately, we can relentlessly copy good solutions from others in the village too.

[theranger]

So the admins should really not rant about systemd but complain about the distributions who switched to systemd or about their employers who force them to use such distributions.

[lanstin]

Or just buckle down and view a new chance to learn something as an enjoyable opportunity. Dammit people we aren’t paid for being experts but the ability to become expert-like in new areas.

[regularfry]

More than one thing can be bad.