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?

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    62·
    3 months ago

    I personally would like a systemd gui. There have been several attempts in the past, but none is maintained.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      On openSUSE, I’ve apparently got at least this thing for looking at SystemD services:

      Allows viewing the services for the different boot targets, as well as the service files. You can also start/stop services or change their start mode (on boot vs manual).

      Well, and there’s a JournalD viewer with filtering:

      Not the most developed GUIs, but…

    • notabot@lemm.ee
      41·
      3 months ago

      SystemD is far too much of a poorly thought through mess to have anything like a sane GUI configuration, it doesn’t even have a sane textfile based configuration. We’re going to have to wait fir SystemD to crumble under it’s own weight and be replaced with multiple, simple, cleanly designed components before we have any hope of a sane config again. Sort of like we used to have before a certain someone/some company (depending on how conspiratorial you’re feeling) decided to come along and muck it all up.

      /rant

      Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk Rant. You may gather I dislike SystemD quite a lot.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
        23·
        3 months ago

        For anyone else reading along: This person is talking out of their ass.