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I agree with that specific advice (minimize the interaction with the base distro). I'm on a quest to isolate every major component of my user experience in containers (including things like browser etc.).

But not because I have anything against Systemd. I love Systemd so far.

It's hilarious that he's proposing CoreOS as an alternative, given that it's one of the most radical rethinks of a Linux distro out there.

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For those with reading comprehension skills this isn't funny but rather a natural conclusion. The problem for you is that you're making assumptions about the author that you haven't verified.

The problem here isn't change, or re-thinking linux. The problem is re-inventing the wheel, and doing it poorly.

CoreOS uses systemd, but it's not a distribution in the classic sense -- rather it's a platform for containers. The narrow use-case for systemd here removes some (most? all?) of the concerns.

ah so you're saying that systemd is flexible because it was chosen for a distro where it has very limited remit? so you mean it wasn't some horrible octopus which tried to suck all of coreos into it before they rejected its entanglements?

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