[kanbara]

i dunno-- i grew up playing around with every distro of linux and unix i could get my hands on, and my first was Slackware/LILO. a lot of the so-called "expert" tools _work_ in some fashion, but could definitely use a UI/UX improvement.

all of the binutils and basic stuff is pretty antiquated and has an old-school and specific perspective and lot of the modern work we do as developers and operators has use-cases which fall behind due to such a rigid way of thinking.

i think systemd is great, and maybe it's overkill for certain applications, but there are also smaller containers and distros one can use for this. i'm all for modernising linux and the tooling around it, it's sorely needed.

[strictfp]

I'm not opposed to the idea of a more intelligent init system, but systemd is doing waaaay to much. One example; it messed up hostname resolution on my lan by blackholing DNS traffic for single-name queries. And you cannot turn their dns component off.

Upstart would have been a better alternative.

[johnny22]

> And you cannot turn their dns component off.

Of course you can turn it off. Fedora didn't even use resolved until 2 or 3 releases ago and they were one of the first major (non rolling) distro to adopt systemd.

[strictfp]

Maybe nowadays, but when it came to Ubuntu back in the day it was enabled by default and couldn't be turned off because it was being used early in the boot cycle when other resolvers hadn't booted yet. Talk about bad design decisions...

[BenjiWiebe]

Wouldn't that be Ubuntu's fault?

Speaking of which, there are some other things that Ubuntu does that get my blood pressure up, such as not having a reliable way to do truly unattended upgrades.