[geographomics]

In the case of wanting to stick to a text-only workflow, rather than taking advantage of the structured data features, then you only need a tool that converts the binary log format to your preferred text format. Which isn't too arduous. In systemd that would be journalctl, in Windows anything that can use the event log API such as Powershell or many other utilities.

The examples I posted above were just to show the equivalent capabilities in Powershell but really it's all flexible enough to use whatever you like.