Comment Re:Systemd AND PULSE AUDIO (Score 1) 993
I don't mean to pick on these few, but they're indicative of a larger trend toward users who appear to believe that reading manuals and learning OS internals is bad, and we should plaster over all of that mumbo-jumbo with a nice, sleek -- and completely opaque -- management layer. For example: systemd.
I believe this thinking is pretty much in line with Microsoft's train of thought back in the early 1990s. This is an end-user mindset -- this has nothing to do with servers, and certainly not enterprise-level servers. This "learning is hard" mentality is very damaging for Linux as a service platform.
Go ahead, kids, spackle over all of that unsightly runlevel stuff. Paint over init and cron, pam and login. Put all of that into PID1 along with dbus. Make it all pretty and whisper sweet nothings about how it's all taken care of and you won't have to read a manual or learn any silly command-line stuff. Tune your distribution for desktop workloads. Go reinvent Windows.