I'm getting sick of using 1000 different utilities to do one task or manage one system. Hate me, down mod me, argue with me, but I for one am a big fan of big software with multiple functions approach.
You mean, like the Windows Registry? Nothing ever went wrong with the kitchen-sink approach to design, right?
Do you time travel to 1995 to visit your parents?
There's a reason that the trope page for Decade Dissonance has a real life section.
... most viruses require a constant high speed connection...
You must be new here - I'm young in internet years, but even I remember the number of viruses flying around in the days of floppy disks and dial-up modems, long before constant high speed connections...
I don't want a cellphone.
Without a mobile phone, how would you go about reaching roadside assistance or emergency services?
Any shitty old mobile with no service plan will work to call 911
Normally I'd recommend a dumb phone, but HalAtWork refuses even this.
As for roadside assistance, just take off your pants and stand in traffic! Someone will stop sooner or later.
Like a police officer ready to stay you for indecent exposure. I would not find permanent sex offender status worth not carrying a phone.
Personally, I think the systemd opponents are too concerned with negative campaigns against systemd, that they entirely forget to code any alternatives, so I predict ever more distros like Slackware abandoning script based init systems; they simply don't have an alternative.
What will happen is other distress will add a compatibility layer so they can handle all the kludge that has added systemD as a requirement.
The problem is systemD is bad design. The systemD guys like to say, "but look at all the features!", which is cool, but features aren't an excuse for bad design. "Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly" etc etc
However, I observe Linux is not a microkernel but it has a reputation for both reliability and being relatively secure.
It has a reputation for security compared to Windows, which is not saying much. Look through a database of security vulnerabilities sometime, it's depressing.
Also worth mentioning that the kernel guys keep as much stuff out of the kernel as possible. There's even a way to segregate drivers into userland. Doing so comes with a performance hit, but if that is relatively unimportant, then it's worth keeping out. Drivers for scanners are part of the kernel, but kept in userland (as one example).
We call it inetd.
Inetd being an example of why systemD is a rather bad idea.
I don't want a cellphone
Without a mobile phone, how would you go about reaching roadside assistance or emergency services? It's hard to find a payphone anymore.
Cloud-based everything makes it even more realistic for most users.
Yeah, if they want to routinely pay data overages.
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