naivepiano

I'm afraid HN has a serious problem with downvoters. Why -in heavens name- is the above a question that deserves downvoting? UPDATE: whoray - I got downvoted too. Gee man. Just not worth it. Buy and thanks for the fish.

True. Or you can switch to Mint. The think with systemd though is that you don't have this option anymore. Regardless of how bad idea you think it is - you are stuck with it (as it seems). I think that's on the core of arguments against it.

Criticism does not equal complain. If I find something horrible I'll say so - that's feedback. By your way of thinking, since I don't have to use brainfuck (an intentionally horrible language) I should not mention that it is horrible. You just don't make sense other than patting youself on the back for being 'positive' downvoting the grumpy ones while letting bad ideas forward.

I see that this change (systemd) is mostly driven by desktop software dev teams. If linux chooses to care mostly about the desktop aspect (IMHO previous such experiments like Unity were total flops but I'm not an expert) instead of its server one then maybe that's the opportunity for BSDs to cover up the void. Not a bad thing at all.

You don't provide any argument. 'It runs on my machines' is akin to 'it runs on my laptop'. Previous system was working, battle tested, was _not_ broken, was not polluting user space. And these are just a few arguments fished from above and other commends here. Now - to defend the new system which will have to prove it's value and stability in the next 20 years or so- what good is it? What awesomeness brings to the table?

I don't know about other distros but let me remind you that ubuntu sometime ago switched from gnome desktop to Unity despite all the cries that the latter is just horrible.

I think that this is because people are finding Python equally well suited for such tasks and more modern. Perl (easy to) obscure syntax is not helping either.

Do you have any link to that speech/article?

You have to know either the jurisdiction (offshore country) of the company or the name of the person. What would be quite valuable would be a search based on the linked countries. E.g. companies/ppl linked to Italy.

That's a google lot of money.

Great comic! Thanks!

Tcl may be the best language in the known universe (highly doubt it) but try running a job search for it in linkedin. Then do the same for java. I'm not the damned CEO you know. I need to think of my own employability/career.