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The most recent reason I found to hate systemd was it replaced my system DNS resolver with its own (thus requiring me to modify /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, and
by peterwwillis 7y ago
The most recent reason I found to hate systemd was it replaced my system DNS resolver with its own (thus requiring me to modify /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, and doing the daemon-reload-service-restart-hokey-pokey, to get a host to function on a network+VPN like it did before). The only reason systemd has its own resolver is they wanted extra DNS functionality. Did I ask for these features? Did I want a new resolver? No. But that's the whole idea behind systemd. A few devs shoving complex features down everyone's throats, just because they felt like it. Operating system fascism.
But I don't think we should be angry at systemd developers; they can develop whatever they want. I'm mostly angry at the distributions who opted in to their crap. Systemd has not made my life easier, but it has often made it harder, and the only reason that happened was because a distro allowed it.
- telmich 7y agoI don't think being angry at anyone will solve the problem. Using and advocating non-systemd distributions might help much more.
- enriquto 7y agoBeing angry does not solve any problem, but it is a legitimate human experience that the OP considered worth sharing.
- silversconfused 7y agoDebian shipping this despite the obvious backlash was the whole reason I jumped ship too, that and the frequent boot failures and looooong timeouts (which I'm sure someone will be happy to tell me are my own fault).