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I'm generally annoyed to see Linux go the "poettering" way instead of the Plan9 way. It feels like going backwards - and unfortunately - every few people are knowledgeable enough to understand this, or care

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It's certainly disappointing. There's been this furious obsession with "getting Linux onto the desktop", which lead to misguided attempts to dumb the OS down to the level that a Linux hacker thinks works for a "normal user". The efforts seem to have proven mainly that Linux hackers don't understand "normal users" and that, given enough determination, you can reimplement a broken version of Windows on top of any OS.

And then your config files get config files (GRUB2, Debian/Ubuntu network configuration, ...) as the horrifically bad design decisions made on behalf of the nonexistent "Linux desktop users" get pushed onto the server that you have to actually deploy working code onto. It's enough to drive a man to drink...or at least it's driven me to Inferno and Plan 9.

Man, that rhum bottle is so tempting now

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