[weblacky]

Jwhat, FWIW I agree with you on FreeBSD being a pain. I guess for me as a certified RHEL admin I don't like taking my work home with me. Too much pain to deal with. GNU/Linux of 2022 is unrecognizable to a 2010 GNU/Linux, so I don't wanna deal with all of the new trash. No, this isn't even about stuff like systemd, but just the general way things have been set up. Hell, just 10 years ago Gentoo STILL basically required users to compile their own kernels (genkernel was buried in the docs, but now that's changed)

Wow, I feel the same way, but never spoke up because I didn't think anyone else would agree with me on this topic. I was a huge Linux fan starting in 1997 or so and sort of got out of it around 2010 to maybe a little later. And I do find a lot of it unrecognizable today than what I was used to seeing. I agree with the general sentiment where these lots of little things have been added, that have pushed their way into the start up or the core configurations. It does seem like it's gotten more complex from the base should you need to tinker. Though I guess the need to tinker has lessened and so the default works for most things.