[geographomics]

Windows systems have had better log querying tools than grep for years now, with a well structured log file format to match. It's good to see Linux distributions finally catching up in this regard.

Not that the log files on Linux are all entirely text-based anyway. The wtmpx and btmpx files are of a binary format, with specialised tools for querying. I don't see anyone complaining about these and insisting that they be converted to a text-only format.