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For the same reason an airline mechanic doesn't care about the location of the fuel injectors in his car, but cares very much about the location on the engines he works on all day.

I won't claim to speak for everyone here, but there's almost nothing I install third-party that I care about during the startup process (on my laptop). And even if I did, they're generally closed-source apps I can't access the source of anyway. 99% of my day-to-day usage of a laptop is with applications I'm manually starting and stopping.

I care VERY much about services automatically starting properly on a server. 99% of my day-to-day usage of a server is applications that automatically start and stop.



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