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The problem isn't so much systemd as an init system as systemd as an everything system. I gave an all-in systemd distro a try this year but quickly went back to
by superkuh 7y ago
The problem isn't so much systemd as an init system as systemd as an everything system. I gave an all-in systemd distro a try this year but quickly went back to something more relaxed after realizing just how bad systemd timers are compared to crontab. It takes writing two 15 line config files and then a long system call to get it to reload the config. It'd be fine for just init but as it swallows more system processes it gets unweildly fast.
- SahAssar 7y agoOn the other hand systemd timers are a lot more powerful with stuff like RandomizedDelaySec and WakeSystem. They can also depend on other units, so that a timer only fires if the system has certain services/devices/mounts/whatever.