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  • Sysv didn’t have to have a lot of documentation. It was simple to understand what it did, and the underlying system was mostly shell scripting. It didn’t try to be and do everything.

    I don’t hate systemd. I prefer it now for the most part. I really do think Lennart Poettering is incredibly skilled and intelligent. I am just frustrated that so much gets pushed without adequate resources and support to weigh what is production-ready, and what is bleeding edge. I’ve already had systemd bite me in the ass at least once where they made a significant unannounced change to systemd-cryptsetup. I had to go find answers by reading through pull request and GitHub issue comments, and it wasn’t easy to find either. The community acted like it wasn’t a big deal that it caused systems to no longer boot. Move fast & break things isn’t the message that will win over larger companies.