Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

[Chris Rouch]

On 22 March 2012 12:56, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> wrote:
> I wonder if I am alone in finding some of the developments in Fedora-16
> actually make life harder for the user?
>
> I'd take grub2 and systemctl as two examples.
> In each case I've read the documentation and understand the motivation
> behind these developments.
> But I remain unconvinced that the gains outweigh the disadvantages
> of methods that are much harder to configure and use.
>
> I don't think this is just a matter of unfamiliarity.
> I think one can say objectively that the new methods
> are more complicated than those they replace.
>
> As a crude measure of complication the new commands
> take longer to type than the old,
> eg "systemctl start openvpn at client.service"
> compared with "start service openvpn".
>
> And the output of the new commands seems much more verbose than the old:
> eg compare the output of "systemctl -a" or "systemctl list-units"
> with that of "chkconfig --list".
>
> Could anyone bringing in these changes have honestly answered "Yes"
> if asked whether the new method would simplify life for the user?
>

I'd agree that the systemctl syntax is clumsier. But on my machines,
the boot time has reduced dramatically.

For grub2, one of the things I like is that it picked up the windows
installation on the other disk, without any configuration on my part.
It also picks up other linux installations on a multi-boot machine.

IMO the added functionality is worth the added complications.

Regards,

Chris