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    [–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (59 children)

    There are many legitimate complaints. Bundling a bunch of services into a single binary goes completely against Unix philosophy. Systemd changing from text to binary logs is my pet peeve.

    Copying how Windows does things isn't necessarily the best.

    [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    Richard P. Gabriel, in his essay “The Rise of Worse-is-Better,” expounds on this theme (see Appendix A). His thesis is that the Unix design philosophy requires that all design decisions err on the side of implementation simplicity, and not on the side of correctness, consistency, or completeness. He calls this the “Worse Is Better” philosophy and shows how it yields programs that are technically inferior to programs designed where correctness and consistency are paramount, but that are evolutionarily superior because they port more easily. Just like a virus.

    The highest achievement of the Unix-aesthetic is to have a command that does precisely one function, and does it well (...) This philosophy, in the hands of amateurs, leads to inexplicably mind-numbing botches like the existence of two programs, “head” and “tail,” which print the first part or the last part of a file, depending. Even though their operations are duals of one another, “head” and “tail” are different programs, written by different authors, and take different options!

    From The Unix Hater's Handbook

    (I like Linux, but it's not all sunshine and rainbows)

    [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    "This program sucks because it doesn't come with the world's most confusing GUI and doesn't do a trillion things"

    If you ask this person what "technically inferior" actually means you'd probably get a different answer every day.

    [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    But that's not what either of the guys complained about

    [–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

    Yea what a hot take that was, critiquing words that were never there and then calling the person an idiot.

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