Before anything else, I would like to say that I admit systemd has brought great change to GNU/Linux. sysvinit wasn’t the best, and custom scripts for every distro is a pain I’d rather not have.
With that said, Poettering now works for Microsoft, systemd has basically taken over all of the common/popular distributions (if this is about the argument of “systemd making it easier for developers”, disclaimer: I don’t know. I’m not a developer), and this has led to a rampant monopolisation of the init system.
Memes aside, this has very real consequences. If you don’t want another CentOS-style “oof, sorry, off to testing” debacle happening with your init system, might want to look at the more “advanced” distributions that let you choose the init system.
I am well aware that systemd works well for the most part, and that gamers and most other people likely don’t care - which is fine, at least for now. I do expect to see a massive turnover in sentiment if something ever happens to systemd (not that I’d like for that to happen, but no trusting RedHat anymore), but I suppose we’ll get to it when we do.
My sentiments are well enunciated in this recent post on the Devuan forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5826
Cheers!
Ring me when systemd starts phoning home to Microsoft and/or installing random microsoft-related packages without my consent.
Remember when Google’s DNS server address was hard-coded in systemd-resolved? Good times, what a laugh we all had.
Systemd-networkd (not systemd the init system) defaulted to the google DNS servers when:
- the admin did not change the configuration
- the user did not configure anything
- the network did not announce anything
- the packagers had not changed it as they were asked to do
- the distribution actually decided to switch to networkd. Few have done somtomthis day.
That is indeed a serious issue worth bringing up decades later.
The main thing that turned it into a serious issue rather than just a stupid thing to joke about was that Poettering refused (as of five years ago) to admit that it was a mistake.
