This article seem to reinforce that there is a split in thinking going on within the Linux community.<p>On the one hand you have the traditional server&#x2F;sysadmin thinking about uptime and stability.<p>On the other hand you have the desktop&#x2F;web thinking of rebooting often (or shutting down when not used, starting up before using) and being on the bleeding edge.<p>Another thing is that his mention about standard ways of doing something. I think that was why Freedesktop was set up in the first place.<p>But they seem to have gone massively off the rails almost from the outset, or it was simply too dominated by Gnome&#x2F;Red Hat people (it was after all founded by once such person, Havoc Pennington) to really get things properly generic and modularized.<p>Asi write this i get to thinking about politics and thinktanks, and how they can make political decisions seem like they are scientifically based, when they really are rubberstamping preconceived political notions.<p>Similarly it may well be that Freedesktop exist to rubberstamp Red Hat&#x2F;Gnome notions about Linux, by virtue of appearing to be a independent entity (similarly Gnome has its own foundation, but a large segment of its core developers are under Red Hat employ).<p>BTW, i seem to recall that while the BSD people had implemented most of the systemd APIs for various settings changes, they had run into a problem with logind.<p>Probably because logind depends heavily on PAM to get its job done, and PAM seems to fly in the face of basic unix-isms.