[ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org] - OT MS vs Apple vs Linux/UNIX

[Chris Fowler]

> From: "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 11:11:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org] - OT MS vs Apple vs Linux/UNIX

> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:19:33 +0000
> "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:

> > Well when major distros like the ones you've listed commit to not use
> > it this is clearly the death knell for systemd. :p

> > Seriously - learn to love systemd - it is NOT the great evil people
> > that haven't tried it suggest it is.

> This response is *precisely* what I was talking about. With any other
> software, those who don't like it are told "fine, if you don't like
> Vim, use Emacs". But here, we're told "learn to love it", as if
> systemd's world domination is inevitable, and refusal to accept that
> conclusion is a personal deficit.

> If no architectural reason existed to shun systemd, the preceding
> attitude would be more than enough.

> When a salesman implies that I have no choice, I walk away. It's the
> only prudent way to handle the situation, to prevent the salesman's
> words from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

One why I deal with user issues is to provide functionality that a user knows while increasing their options. 

rc.local is an example where I would have maintained support for a script that is executed at the end of every other script. 
Even if there is a way to do this in systemd after writing a script with certain options I would have created this for the user and put it in the distro as /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.local is a symlink to the systemd script. This eases the transistion of the user into something knew with familiarity. 
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