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How “modern” are they when they’re just a bunch of shell scripts on top of POSIX? SystemD caught up to NT4 and the original MacOS.


> SystemD caught up to NT4 and the original MacOS.

The transition happened to the huffing and puffing/kicking and screaming of many sysadmins.


Still a minority of sysadmins though. Most seem to have embraced it to an extent that's honestly a little sad to see. I liked to think of the linux community as generally being a more technical community, and that was true for a long time when you needed more grit to get everything running, but nowadays many just want Linux to be 'free windows'.


> nowadays many just want Linux to be 'free windows'

This means Linux has "made it."

> I liked to think of the linux community as generally being a more technical community, and that was true for a long time when you needed more grit to get everything running

I guess that grit was a gateway to a basic Linux experience for a long time - it did take a lot of effort to get a normal desktop running in the early to mid 90's. But that was never going to last - technical people tend to solve problems and open source means they're going to be available to anyone. There are new frontiers to apply the grit.




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