[unixsheikh]

I cannot believe how big of a monstrosity systemd has become. It started out as an init system and was promoted as such and I started out liking it. Then the wording suddenly changed to "a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system", then came the hardcoded DNS servers, then the shitload of bugs that has been ignored since about 2015. Now instead of fixing what's broken and making things more secure, more and more cruft keeps getting added.

> We used to sit around in the Unix Room saying, 'What can we throw out? Why is there this option?' It's often because there is some deficiency in the basic design — you didn't really hit the right design point. Instead of adding an option, think about what was forcing you to add that option. (Doug McIlroy).

Sigh!