To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to appreciate systemd. The design sense is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the wicked garbage that goes in to running a PC the way people expect, the decisions will go over the typical user's head. There's also Lennart's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterization- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Upstart, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these design decisions, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about PCs. As a consequence people who dislike systemd truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humor in Lennart's decision to use an "an INI-like configuration language," which itself is a cryptic reference to Microsoft's Windows. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Lennart Poettering's genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a systemd tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid
@matrix imho opinion *soft*ware should be designed on the premise what possible can go wrong, and how likely and fatal is that.
To do most things right and smart, is and can be never an excuse for building great palaces on weak grounds, just because it's easy and convenient if you just want to get jobs done.
IQ is not all when it comes to understand the subtitle fabrics of shit will happen, the irony of reality is that it is not build on solid reasoning but random applied stupidity.
@matrix an upside down pyramid.