Irrationality at it's best

Less about keeping the comments down more about having those comments of questionable quality, support the site so we can get good article in exchange of having to read all those.

Personally, I've been running statistics in my head whenever one of these 'RAWR' topics come up; and to be honest, LWN is where I come to view generally courteous digressions on a particular poster's opinions and experiences. Often I get wonderfully pertinent data on a wide range of topics (see the 'filesystem geek' above outlining his experiences with btrfs -- mine differ!) that I care about.

I don't have much money, but I do keep my LWN subscription running to pick up some of the most meaningful insight into the linux world and it's players.

So far, I think Raven667 summed it up best with:
"If things were as bad as the detractors say it would have been obvious for a long time and they wouldn't be talking about 'potential' problems, there would be a long line of angry pitchfork wielding sysadmins."

So far most of what I've heard has been grunts of indifference, a couple 'oh thank god I can finally kill that horrible initscript hack', and only one outright dismissal of systemd from a hardcore gentoo'er I know.

But hey, I helped out Gerard Beekmans and Jessie Tie-Ten-Quee with the getting the first copies of Linux from Scratch out the door -- I understand my system enough to know why things are. I understand others may not necessarily have that clarity, nor do I fault them for not wishing to develop it. Humans are by nature self-specializing, after all.