Hello everyone! I know that Linux GUI advanced in last few years but we still lack some good system configuration tools for advanced users or sysadmins. What utilities you miss on Linux? And is there any normal third party alternatives?

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Its far too convoluted. A systemd gui for… DNS? Boot services? User Services? tmp file management? Everything?

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Everything! And a virt-manager like tool for nspawn! And for the faux-cron jobs! Make it as byzantine as systemd itself

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That’s the point. That systemd is convoluted, so a gui could help. And yes, for everything. :)

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My point is there is no way to sanely create a GUI for something has it’s tendrils in… Everything. In fact, there’s no sane way to do any sort of UI for such a beast.

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Maybe the system should be made less convoluted.

I mean, do we really need a half dozen network management services, all broken in their own way and none that do everything you need?

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All of those are entirely separate components; I have no idea what you’re attempting to imply here.

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Those are all things systemd manages… as well as logs, udev, etc etc.

What kind of gui too could you even imagine would sanely present all of that?

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As mentioned, those are entirely separate and even independent components.

Systemd (as in: pid1) only “manages” them insofar as that it controls their running processes just like any other service on your system.

systemd-boot doesn’t interact with systemd at all; it’s not even a Linux program.

The reason these components have “systemd” in their name is that these components are maintained by the same people as part of the greater systemd project. They have no further relation to systemd pid1 (the service manager).

Whoever told you otherwise milead you and likely had an agenda or was transitively mislead by someone who does. Please don’t spread disinformation further.

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