Agreed, the designers of X made some truly brilliant decisions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual http://en.wikipedia.

Agreed, the designers of X made some truly brilliant decisions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conv... Edit: I don't have a dog in the hunt on systemd but if it really is tight coupling then history might prove it was a bad decision. There was a lot of let's say strong opinions against Pulse Audio on Linux but I find (once we got through the growing pains) that it's a blessing. It's far superior to Windows 7's basic audio management in my opinion. I've no idea about Windows 8.