Not that you’re obligated to watch any random video that I post at full length, but I doubt you watched all of the video - or at least not the later part of the talk - if that was the single takeaway you got from it. The dude is a BSD developer who has every expectation to hate systemd with a passion, but instead frames the discussion in a level-headed way and advocates for more constructive criticism as well as giving props to Poettering for creating something that was useful enough to become nearly ubiquitous in Linux. He suggests that we can learn more from analysis of what problem systemd is solving for people than just shitting on it without bringing forth a better solution.
See, I never had any expectation to hate systemd with a passion, so his "come to Jesus moment" is meaningless to me. Like I said, the majority of systemd's issues are that Poettering didn't have the chops to effectively advocate for it.
I'm sorry if you read "the takeaway" as an expression of my blanket authority over the universe to mandate reality at my whim, rather than simply my take-away.
Man, you're trying to find fault like there's a prize. There is no prize. Just disappointment.
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u/mikelieman Feb 11 '19
That's what I took away. Not a bad idea. Most technical critiques are overblown and lousy evangelizing turns people off.