The “political stuff” about the birthdate field is completely overblown, as per usual with systemd. Binary logs aren’t that big a deal either. Like Torvalds said, those are details you can disagree with but it doesn’t mean you should dismiss the entire project because of it. Your comment is probably the first one I’ve read in this community that doesn’t boil down to: “I read somewhere that systemd doesn’t follow unix philosophy, yuck!”. That was kind of my entire point.

I wouldn’t even complain about it, if people here just stuck to shitposting instead of this thinly wrapped “I like/dislike X, please fight about it in the comments :)” bait.

There are legitimate reasons to criticise systemd and I’m completely certain that they will never be posted in this community. I swear if I have to read some stupid comment about the unix philosphy from someone who has no idea what systemd is, which parts are optional or what init looked like before this stupid twenty year long debate…