I&#x27;ve been FreeBSD wherever I can (mostly personal machines), but did work on a high availability VPN based off FreeBSD that a major Telco bought years ago.<p>There is another post mentioning the desktop&#x2F;web thinking and the server&#x2F;sysadmin thinking.<p>My thinking - the server&#x2F;sysadmins are right, but the majority are people in the desktop&#x2F;web crowd.<p>I actually expect things to get worse once you rope in the container (docker&#x2F;deis&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;mesos&#x2F;etc) crowd.<p>The general attitude seems to be &quot;this doesn&#x27;t work for me, let me invent something new&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;ve spent anytime trying to develop on top of containers and have a deep systems background, you are resisting a hell we had in the late 90s and early 2000s...because &quot;new shiny thing&quot;.<p>SystemD is endemic of the new generation trying to solve problems on top of linux.  Rather than understand and address the problem, invent something monolithic that isn&#x27;t better than what it replaced.<p>Oh then force it on distros and not be open to criticism.<p>I really hate this debate and probably should keep quiet.