Comment Re:Who cares. (Score 2) 115
systemd (some hate it, others love it)
I think the main complain is that it does, or tries to do, too much -- certainly more than it *needs* to do (eg: DNS) -- and some not in the way it ideally should (eg: PID 1). Basically it suffers from mission creep and bloat.
Personally, I started with BSD and have used or been an admin on many flavors of Unix -- I think I've used them all except those from Apple -- as well a several flavors of Linux (I prefer the Debian-based ones, I currently use Mint) and they have run the gamut of system startup/control methodologies from free-form scripts that often have to be hand edited to the more structured ones, like Solaris SMF, and (sigh) systemd, etc... I prefer the latter group as it's easier to automate modifying and control them. That doesn't change my "basically" feelings about systemd above though.