> For someone who just wants to self host, having to learn about systemd, by definition makes the product/system not easy. Sometimes HN threads seem to self-su

> For someone who just wants to self host, having to learn about systemd, by definition makes the product/system not easy. Sometimes HN threads seem to self-sustain forever starting from a pointless argument and discussing it like it was the truth. Learning systemd is not necessary for anything in day to day life, not in desktop use, not in self hosting, default configuration from package managers work fine out of the box. At most you need to learn how to start, stop, disable and query service status. I've been using linux since decades, way before systemd, never had to learn systemd until I needed to ship my own custom services on my own custom devices. But at the point you're way far from being a layperson.