Tony Morris

NixOS makes systemd manageable for me. That's one of the reasons I like it so much

High level - why do you need to change settings in systemd? I don't really know, beyond some startup stuff(?), what systemd is, or does.

It manages long-running services. For work, this is pretty much everything. For my personal use, things like redshift, dnscrypt-proxy, etc.

It's a bit of a monolith, so it's begun to subsume things like cron, dns, and docker. Also, any moderately complex app is a set of services.

Microservices, on my desktop?

Sure, have you looked at htop recently?

Running a series of commands in a specified order means you have to coordinate and keep track of dependencies. Systemd does this.

Anyway, I'm not an expert. I've been doing this stuff for barely 6 months. I hadn't even heard of journalctl when I started.