This page's horrible readability is a perfect reflection of the kind of folks that dislike systemd.
Yeah, newcomers to the Linux land without the expertise you guys acquired through 10 years of using Linux, would apparently appreciate how easy it is to manage a server by invoking some lengthy commands they learned through reading the often overly-dense manual instead of `systemctl start/stop x`.
Nowadays some of those so-called "hackers" tend to ignore the part of work that makes the user experience better. They claim that they want simplicity and avoid bloat but most of the times they are just being lazy and not sympathetic to their users.
I'm not saying that things should be dumbed down to clicking GUI buttons on Linux. But if you want your program to become mainstream you need to think about providing good and practical docs and making your program easier to use, even for text-based programs.
Accept that most people would like Bootstrap'ed sites more than yours:
body
{
background-color: #080808;
color: #ffff70;
font-family: sans;
}
That's why I opt for Ubuntu 15.04 instead of 14.04 LTS on my VPS, since 15.04 has systemd.
Are we really using website design choices as a valid target to discredit someone's opinion on the technical merit of an init system?
Can I use Lennart's inability to buy a properly sized polo as a reason why systemd is bad?
Yeah. The guy has an ugly website. But he has specific points about mistakes that systemd didn't learn from and is repeating. Did he list 'it's too user friendly' as one of those mistakes? In fact, one of his core arguments is that there will actually be an increase in complexity and reduction in user friendliness due to design choices that have been made.
I'm saying that, if people keep responding to those less-experienced Linux users who complain init scripts too complex by saying "Quite. Deal with it." like this author (http://www.steven-mcdonald.id.au/ugly.shtml), I fail to see how systemd is gonna fail.
My comment is not about design choices but attitude and sympathy to users. This is not intended as an ad-hominem.
The author seems to think systemd "babysits" its users, but as a user I find systemd "cares" about its users.
It might not look fancy, but the readability is way better then on most sites these days. It loads fast, it has enough contrast, there are no distracting elements like images or animations that make it hard to focus on the content, scroll works as expected, the content is not split into useless pages, it does not make my fan spin up because some elements use insane amounts of computation power, content is not squeezed into some tiny box as it often is on other websites...
If the average website would let me read as comfortably as this one, that would be a huge step forward.
Fwiw I like the website. I would have toned down the yellow. And I would probably have had dark on light.
But it's really great to have a page that loads nearly instantly - the ratio of information provided : loading time is very good.
Other pages take an age to load (and Chrome on iOS has an annoying "feature" where the address can't be selected and copied until the page has almost finished loading).
Agree, it's a pleasure to use a site that isn't burdened by tons of ads, tracking scripts, and tries to re-implement scrolling (badly) if you visit from a mobile device.
See theverge.com for an example of a site that doesn't even scroll smooothly on my android phone.
Yeah, newcomers to the Linux land without the expertise you guys acquired through 10 years of using Linux, would apparently appreciate how easy it is to manage a server by invoking some lengthy commands they learned through reading the often overly-dense manual instead of `systemctl start/stop x`.
Nowadays some of those so-called "hackers" tend to ignore the part of work that makes the user experience better. They claim that they want simplicity and avoid bloat but most of the times they are just being lazy and not sympathetic to their users.
I'm not saying that things should be dumbed down to clicking GUI buttons on Linux. But if you want your program to become mainstream you need to think about providing good and practical docs and making your program easier to use, even for text-based programs.
Accept that most people would like Bootstrap'ed sites more than yours:
That's why I opt for Ubuntu 15.04 instead of 14.04 LTS on my VPS, since 15.04 has systemd.