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Criticisms of systemd say it does too much, so maybe every basic animal on the farm is systemd? Orwell is complaining about how the pig is overly complicated for a farm animal.
If I really break it down, I guess the author is saying that while it could be cool to have talking pigs, they have no place in a production farm. The average Linux admin doesn't want tools that can do everything, they just need the thing done??
IDK, feels overly heavy for the delivery.
Was the farmer also systemd?
Farmer is the kernel.
Farmer is systemd/kerneld*
It all seems so complicated. And they wonder why more people don't switch to farming... rolls eyes...
Is Orwell the systemd devs?
I suppose Orwell is supposed to be the average user?
Orwell, the user, is a supervisord pleb that already understands the limitations of sysinit but their inability to read some man pages results in them writing a long-ass book instead.
I have written long-ass reports to try explaining shit, only to find myself understanding the manual. I think it's part of learning.
I was referencing the lengthy screeds against systemd that appear on the internet - those do not strike me as being productive for learning systemd - they appear to me to be justifications against trying to learn the thing. Is this the style of writing that has helped you or were you unaware of what I was referencing?
My apologies, I took time to try explaining something better to people than the man pages and ending up better appreciating them.
I was referencing articles doing the opposite of what you've done, then.
Orwell is a protest distro user and/or developer.