Generally speaking people like things that work well and hate things that don't. Any other justification citing 'philosophies' or similar nonsense are retroactive attempts to cast their feelings in a more intellectual light.
When somebody says "I dislike systemd because it violates the Unix philosophy" what they almost certainly actually mean is "systemd has caused me a lot of grief." You don't hear complaints about firefox or chromium violating the so called "Unix philosophy" because generally firefox or chromium will satisfy the overwhelming majority of users. That's why nobody uses Uzbl.
This is what systemd advocates (like the article's author) don't seem to get when they point out that systemd is a launchd ripoff so people who like launchd should like systemd as well. People like launchd because launchd doesn't cause them grief. People dislike systemd because systemd does. Design philosophies have jack shit to do with it.
Anyway the only real 'philosophy' Unix ever had was "worse is better" and systemd certainly seems to pay homage to that.
Generally speaking people like things that work well and hate things that don't. Any other justification citing 'philosophies' or similar nonsense are retroactive attempts to cast their feelings in a more intellectual light.
When somebody says "I dislike systemd because it violates the Unix philosophy" what they almost certainly actually mean is "systemd has caused me a lot of grief." You don't hear complaints about firefox or chromium violating the so called "Unix philosophy" because generally firefox or chromium will satisfy the overwhelming majority of users. That's why nobody uses Uzbl.
This is what systemd advocates (like the article's author) don't seem to get when they point out that systemd is a launchd ripoff so people who like launchd should like systemd as well. People like launchd because launchd doesn't cause them grief. People dislike systemd because systemd does. Design philosophies have jack shit to do with it.
Anyway the only real 'philosophy' Unix ever had was "worse is better" and systemd certainly seems to pay homage to that.