Just Draw (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

I know it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy

For me, it falls into the pragmatic gap between idealism and usability. Is it perfect? Most certainly not. Does it serve a good portion of use cases? Apparently. Does it work as a more-or-less de facto standard to provide a common platform for other things to build on? Evidently.

If we could codify the resulting standards and assumptions and create a more modular ecosystem to plug that same gap, that would still be a lot of work, and at some point, most people just wanna build the damn house instead of overengineering the foundation.

Perfect is the enemy of good, and systemd has to be good enough.

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