• Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    You missed the point where I said “…and move on.”

    The fact that I dislike it doesn’t change the fact that it’s prevalent, and so I use systemd every day.

    It’s the same with any technology I need. Ansible is a mostly awful language, but I need it to do my job, so I buckle down and use it. Git is…well actually git is pretty awesome.

    A decade (or two?) ago, perl was the language of choice for complex admin tasks, despite being a nightmare to maintain. Now we have mostly moved to python and ruby, which are generally much better.

    My point is that just because a standard (process, tool, etc.) is flawed, we don’t refuse to use it; and conversely, just because we use a tool doesn’t make it immune to valid criticism.