On: Deprecated Linux networking commands and their rep...

[trapperkeeper74]

Churn and reinventing the wheel accomplishes nothing but creating busywork for many hundreds of thousands of users, creates an unnecessary learning curve and wastes time. They should've just fixed/rewrite net-tools for new interfaces and added flags for parsable output.

Breaking changes is very uncool.

[digi_owl → trapperkeeper74]

Even Linus Torvalds dislike the ip command.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/1/128

And whenever i try to use it i find myself reminded, and not in any pleasant sense, of a crappy Cisco IOS clone.

The whole thing feels more at home as the default shell on a router than a tool on any desktop or server.