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by holuponemoment 405 days ago
Nice list, I'd add run0 as the sudo replacement.

My only bugbear with it is that there's no equivalent to the old timeout default you could set (note that doas explicitly said they won't implement this too). The workaround is to run it in `sudo -i` fashion and not put a command afterwards which is reasonable enough even though it worked hard against my muscle memory + copypaste commands when switching over.

> Systemd gets a lot of hate

I'd argue it doesn't and is simply another victim of loud internet minority syndrome.

It's just a generic name at this point, basically all associated with init and service units and none of the other stuff.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/run0.1.en
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DonHopkins 404 days ago
I was dismayed at having to go from simple clean linear BSD 4.3 / SunOS 4.1.3 era /etc/rc /etc/rc.local init scripts to that tangled rat king abomination of symbolic links and rc.d sub-directories and run levels that is the SysV / Solaris Rube Goldberg device. So people who want to go back to the "good old days" of that AT&T claptrap sound insane to me. Even Slowlaris moved on to SMF.
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godelski 405 days ago
Oh yes, please add more! I'd love to see what others do because frankly, sometimes it feels like we're talking about forbidden magic or something lol

And honestly, I think the one thing systemd is really missing is... people talking about it. That's realistically the best way to get more documentation and spread all the cool tricks that everyone finds.

  > I'd argue it doesn't
I definitely agree on loud minority, but they're visible enough that anytime systemd is brought up you can't avoid them. But then again, lots of people have much more passion about their opinions than passion about understanding the thing they opine about.
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egorfine 404 days ago
> run0 as the sudo replacement

Of course. We suffered with sudo for a couple of decades already! Obviously it's wrong and outdated and has to be replaced with whatever LP says is the new norm.

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flexagoon 404 days ago
All of your comments mention something existing for a long time, but X11 and ALSA and IPv4 and many more technologies have been used by people for many decades, and yet they still suck and have a replacement available.
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egorfine 404 days ago
X11 sucks today. It was so beautiful and incredibly useful back in the day. I'm not sure that ALSA sucks, though.

cron and sudo definitely don't.

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