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systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success (blog.tjll.net)

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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That idea feels very useful but I also distrust it and it makes me angry for reasons I can't articulate.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 days ago

Do the reasons include gate keeping?

[–] Quik@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

Your distrust is kind of reasonable: I've been using this a lot for the past year and there definitely were two or three moments where it was a bit annoying, too little transparent on what commands will be run, etc.