Comments by "" (@grokitall) on "Systemd Is Hated By Many, But Does It Deserve It?" video.

  1. one of the main reasons for the dislike of systemd is the mentality of the developers, starting with leonard and continuing through his fanboys. first, he identifies potentially valid problems. he did this with avahi, with pulseaudio and then with systemd. then he get the bit he is working on to be "dev complete", where it works on his machine (in a way that is deliberately incompatable with the alternatives) , and doesn't care if it works on anyone elses machine, and relies on his fanboys to get it to work on anything else, while he completely loses interest in it. this bit is then excused as being optional, and thus it doesn't matter that is incompatable, until one of the higher levels of stuff has a hard dependency on it, and suddenly the alternatives are squeezed out of the mainstream ecosystem, making it harder to remove it when it needs replacing. also, when they do something that causes problems for some other project, well that is ok, because we won't fix it because it in our code. these and other behaviours are just some of the reasons that people don't trust the systemd developers and the fact that redhat has not made any efforts to tone down these bad behaviours is why people don't trust redhat about systemd
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