why do we use systemd?

[Bill Oliver]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2014, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 07/05/2014 04:21 PM, Tim wrote:
>>  The old system was considered bad, because it had 6 run levels, of which
>>  a few of them were never used.  Now we have 12?
>
> I didn't exactly like systemd when it first came out, but I've gotten used to 
> it.  And, like it or not, Linux as a whole isn't going to go back to the old 
> init style of booting.  My advice is that we all learn to stop worrying and 
> love systemd.
>


My impression is that there seems to be a desire to increase the complexity of linux to the point that it is no longs something that people can administer themselves.  Everything has to be esoteric, so that fewer and fewer people find it accessible.  I used to tell my friends that linux was actually *easer* to deal with than Windows, once you got over the initial learning cureve associated with making the change.

I used to tell people that Windows was "easy" because they had already invested thousands of hours trying to make it work, and now they were semi-comfortable with what they have.  Linux is different, so much of what they learned doesn't directly translate, but once they got the differences, it would make more sense and be much easier.

I no longer say that.

billo