On 2014-06-09 17:47, Billie Walsh wrote:
We all use our computers differently. Me, I'm just an average home user. I surf the web. Do e-mail. The most strenuous things I do are create web pages and I use Winff with avconv to convert video once a week. I only know one command line string by heart. That one installs Synaptic on a clean install because the KDE package handlers suck big time. I have no idea what systemd is or does. I couldn't care less as long as my computer boots up and works. See, I'm the computer user that everyone says Linux isn't ready for.
:-)
I suspect the ones doing all the complaining are the power users that like to get into the systems guts and tweak all the settings. Change means that what they want to do no longer works. That upsets them. They want things to remain static forever. Someone much smarter than myself one remarked that the only constant is change. Personally, I believe the change is towards entropy, but that's another story.
It means that what we knew now is no longer valid. We have to find new ways to do the same thing, that is, study. Means time and effort, instead of just getting the thing done, because previously we already knew the way to do it, maybe several ways. Now we have to spend time, study or ask. ;-) There are things that are currently broken or unfinished, but hey, this is Linux, not Unix. Hey, I don't like systemd, but the arguments I see here against it are mostly invalid, so much so that me, which would like systemd to go away, have got instead to point them out defend systemd! Yiks! So, I can grumble and hate, or simply accept that systemd is here to stay, no matter what; and learn its ways and live happy with it, as much as I can. Instead of refusing and trying to revert all the changes myself, like things going out of bin to usr, accept them. Large initrd? Ok, fine. I leave the distribution to have its own way, mostly, and I only change what I absolutely must, with the minimal of change and effort. Makes life easier, and I can watch movies instead ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)