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Is Systemd that bad afterall?

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SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time.

I’m old enough to remember plymouth.service (graphical image) being the most slowest service on boot in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. But I don’t see that as an issue anymore. I don’t have a graphical systemD boot on my Arch but I installed Fedora Sericea and it actually boots faster than my Arch despite the plymouth (or whatever they call it nowadays).

My 2 questions:

  1. Is the current SystemD rant derived from years ago (while they’ve improved a lot)?
  2. Should Linux community rant about bigger problems such as Wayland related things not ready for current needs of normies?
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quaff@lemmy.ca
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Is there somewhere I can read about the Debian wars? I am curious about that 🤓

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bill@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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I also think that sounds intriguing.

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Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org
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Prepare for a rabbit hole… but this ought to get you started…

https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708

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