Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "This is how you do Cronjobs. (404 MEME NOT FOUND)" video.

  1. The nice thing about systemd is that it means user files are kept in the user area, instead of being in /var/spool/cron. Much tidier.
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  2. Who said any of them are bad? Only you did.
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  3. Fine. If you find a system made only out of small, single-function pieces, by all means stick to it. While the entire rest of the computing world continues to embrace Linux.
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  4. The whole cron concept is showing its age.
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  5. systemd is much more versatile. And it puts user files in the user area, instead of in /var somewhere.
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  6. That hoary old “do one thing, and do it well” was always a half-truth. It never applied to the Linux kernel itself, or to the X server, or even to glibc. Have you looked at bash? Did you notice its man page alone is over 5000 lines? In order for the small pieces to work well together, the big pieces are essential.
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  7. systemd is just as modular as the Linux kernel. bash is not modular. And you admit that the X server and glibc are large monoliths. So why do you pick on systemd?
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