Even systems that use text logs, compress logs using logrotate and you have to uncompress before you can read them. Also since the compressed tar.gz logs are a bunch of separate files, if you don’t have an exact date of what you’re looking for, you have to uncompress and search through all of them. I much prefer just using journalctl
What systemd binary is the worst offender, in your opinion?
Logind. Right after udev.
Not sure what’s annoying about logind, but udev was introduced eight years before systemd was a thing.
It’s not the binary. It’s that the logs it writes are in binary so can’t be read without a program.
Even systems that use text logs, compress logs using logrotate and you have to uncompress before you can read them. Also since the compressed tar.gz logs are a bunch of separate files, if you don’t have an exact date of what you’re looking for, you have to uncompress and search through all of them. I much prefer just using journalctl
You can’t read a text file without a program either.