"Quoting the "Unix philosophy" as the reason to keep things like they were 20 years ago is laughable. I want to get things done..."
The Unix philosophy (loose coupling of specialized pieces) is what permits you to get things done. It is the foundational theory behind the most successful architecture on the planet.
systemd is doing things the Windows way -- monolithic, tightly coupled systems wherein, using Occam's Razor, the explanation for some of the coupling has to go into the realm of the nontechnical.
Those of us who have to manage and create large complex systems sort of scratch our heads at the idea that desktop systems booting faster is an important goal deserving of all this mess. Linux on the desktop has always been terrible and will always be terrible, and getting to it a few seconds faster is not helping you.
Windows has historically sported better system integration than Unix, with system components of greater granularity and flexibility than Unix has historically provided thanks to the power of COM interfaces. If the tightly coupled Windows way provides a better solution, then maybe we should build things the Windows way.
nothing that you said is actually true. There are probably 10,000 Unix systems for every windows system now, and all of them support far greater granularity and flexibility than any windows device has ever offered.
The Unix philosophy (loose coupling of specialized pieces) is what permits you to get things done. It is the foundational theory behind the most successful architecture on the planet.
systemd is doing things the Windows way -- monolithic, tightly coupled systems wherein, using Occam's Razor, the explanation for some of the coupling has to go into the realm of the nontechnical.
Those of us who have to manage and create large complex systems sort of scratch our heads at the idea that desktop systems booting faster is an important goal deserving of all this mess. Linux on the desktop has always been terrible and will always be terrible, and getting to it a few seconds faster is not helping you.