The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

> > It isn't about whether it works, it is about what it is like to work with.

> OK, but most user don't work with the init system, right? It's just a few developers that are affected, and far less people than are participating in discussions, right?

Except you're making a major mistake that far too many IT workers make. You're assuming that systems have a sys-admin.

How many systems are like mine? I have a home network - two gentoo PCs, a Windows 7 laptop, a bunch of Android phones ... yep, I may be a sys-admin, but I'm a sys-admin merely because I'm a user and I'm the only person to admin my systems.

I want an init system that is simple to use, and SysVInit most certainly is NOT. Currently (while I may not be able to blame it on the init system, I can certainly blame it on the lack of time to trouble-shoot) I have a system with broken raid and nfs. I don't want to add init weirdos to the rest of my boot-time cussing ...

Cheers,
Wol