Honestly, systemd isn’t bad, because a one concrete program will always be more reliable than bunch of bash scripts tied with rubber bands and bubble gum, but Poettering is a twat by making it (purposefully) non portable.
The point is that he explicitly makes this hard. That’s why he is a twat. The issue is that some applications (especially graphical) do get heavily integrated with it which makes it also hard to port them.
Honestly, systemd isn’t bad, because a one concrete program will always be more reliable than bunch of bash scripts tied with rubber bands and bubble gum, but Poettering is a twat by making it (purposefully) non portable.
It’s opensource, you can port it.
The point is that he explicitly makes this hard. That’s why he is a twat. The issue is that some applications (especially graphical) do get heavily integrated with it which makes it also hard to port them.