| Most people don't know much about any of the details. They have simply done things one way for a long time and now it is changing. You haven't addressed that besides accusing those people of being "ignorant about good design principles" and "having huge misunderstandings that leads to a lot of wasted energy." From the perspective of the average linux user ( one that knows little to nothing about linux internals ) the entire discussion is the real waste of energy. The people who know a ton are a different category altogether; you have addressed those. The category of people you are ignoring is those who did it one way now they are suddenly "forced" to change. I feel the same way about firewalld as I do about systemd. Iptables was confusing, but I used it till I was able to do what I needed. Now all of that knowledge is useless because I have to use a different system to stay with the rest of the group. Is systemd better? Sure. Is firewalld better? Dunno; I think so. Am I ignorant and clueless and misunderstanding everything? No... I just have a different perspective than all of the people fighting about this. All I want is to continue my simple life. Learning new stuff is a drag if it worked fine before. ( I'm aware of how sucky 'fine' is... ) This is not an argument; it's just a statement of how I and a lot of people feel. We used to have a normal car; now the steering wheel is gone and replaced by a grid of 20 buttons that control an automated robot who steers for us. We were used to the wheel. We ask for the wheel back and we are told we are clueless and ignorant and should use the buttons. |
If all distros adopt "systemd/linux", a future plan for systemd according to lead developers, what happens if systemd collapses? It would take GNU/Linux with it. Remember how pulseaudio adoption by ubuntu drove users away. I want others to have access to UNIX, the best OS in the world, just like I had the opportunity.