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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Roughly speaking, it is because it does not follow the Unix philosophy and proposes to do several tasks making the code very complex and therefore more susceptible to bugs.

[-] epat@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

But systemd is not a single tool, nor a single binary, it's a collection of tools.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

I believe their retort would be "name one thing systemd does well"

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

That is a bit like asking "name one thing that coreutils does well" or "name one thing GNU does well".

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

The joke being "systemd does everything poorly". First heard someone say this about X and Wayland. People were saying Wayland violated Unix philosophy and the speaker said "name one thing X does well" lol.