I exhaled from my nose, but at the end this joke doesn’t seem fair.
I’ve been running Artix for years, because I wanted to try it out for fun and now am too lazy to switch, cause most things just work. I update weekly just fine and sometimes I have to write an init file for openrc.
The biggest pain point was when I was trying to debug an issue which crashed KDE and realised that there is no journalctl ofc.
Like with most technology, init should be based on use-case.
Some setups are not made for quick reboots and that’s ok. When all your container does is run ddclient you might find that even cron can work just as well as systemd.timers
I’m not a linux power user but have some servers running on linux and honestly wouldn’t change it with anything else, as everything runs smooth and maintainance is easy and straight forward. Even if something gets fucked there is a great online community which helped me out everytime.
That said, and sorry for the long introduction:
I read a lot systemd memes in the last weeks: What is the problem with it and why is it trending now?
Nothing new. Nothing recent. Just people being scared of something because they don’t know how it works or because it’s relatively new.
Major distros have started adopting it in recent years. It’s one of many ways for a distro to manage which services are running. Many of the others are essentially a hodgepodge of shell scripts.
systemd provides a lot of flexibility with service dependencies and logging, amount other things. It has a standard way to have user-scoped services. It’s standardizes filtering logs for specific services.
basicly people complaining about what they don’t understand, that it don’t follow unix philosophy, when that philosophy was created 50 years ago, any way,etc, if systemd wasn’t good anyone could have adopted it, and everyone did, beause it easier, it’s faster and it work
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Sysinit was basically one file where you tell a process what to do, start, reload, stop. Systems is way way more complicated and according to some, prone to breaking.
Thanks, and understood. Do you also know why this topic is trending right now? Systemd isn’t some brand new thing, so why the sudden outcry?
It’s been hated since day 1, perhaps only now are you starting to see and understand what people say about it.
I feel like this is a Slackware joke
Tmux over gnu screen? Too progressive for me!
It’s all fun and games until you can’t even reboot cleanly because systemd isn’t responding…
