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I think the fact that all major distros have gone the direction of systemd is probably a good indicator that it makes sense to move there. I’m sure the distro
by Bnshsysjab 7y ago
I think the fact that all major distros have gone the direction of systemd is probably a good indicator that it makes sense to move there.
I’m sure the distro leads are smarter than I am, too.
- goatinaboat 7y agoThey had no choice. After the udev fiasco running the Linux kernel without systemd becomes prohibitively complicated for many use cases. The main GUIs were similarly captured (e.g. with logind). You obviously can still run a Linux kernel based system without systemd but it is already hard and will get harder to run the larger userland components that other distros get “for free”. If you don’t like systemd then the only sane option for you is to make the jump to FreeBSD.
- YarickR2 7y agoGentoo is looking at you disapprovingly .
- Bnshsysjab 7y agoI used gentoo without systemd for some time but things became problematic. Bluetooth headphones were barely functional, Firefox required pulse audio or sound didn’t work out of the box. I’m not in love with systemd, personally. But it’s harder to live without it than with it.
- p_l 7y agoPeople seem to forgot, but majority move to systemd was caused by GNOME not working on systems without it, while the API it depended on was made near impossible to implement outside of systemd (the docs were incomplete and incorrect, etc). That was the tipping point for systemd adoption, caused by incestuous relationship between systemd, GNOME, and Fedora.