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The website says Devuan let's you "reclaim control over their system by avoiding unnecessary entanglements", what's wrong with systemd?

• Arnavion 6y ago
  Please let's not start this discussion again, when it's been done to the death in other easily-searchable places on the internet before.
• remlov 6y ago
  Not much, but Unix purists would argue that systemd violates the Unix philosophy. https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/ https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/
• zozbot234 6y ago
  The (IMHO) best critique I'm aware of is at https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/ https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/ (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072 )
• kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
  > what's wrong with systemd? It was written by a cowboy coder and issues have cropped up that indicate no serious code review has been performed.
• einpoklum 6y ago
  As others have said - I don't want to hijack this thread in favor of a systemd-yes-or-no argument. In fact, I made it a point not to use derogatory or inflammatory language in my post, and still got a bunch of downvotes. At this link: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=systemd https://hn.algolia.com/?q=systemd you will find stories involving systemd here on HN over the past several years. I and many others oppose various aspects of systemd, but more importantly, we oppose its being a nearly-inescapable default on Debian. It's not like you can just remove it if you want something else.