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With Systemd you have a configuration language and a defined surface. With OpenRC you have unconstained init scrips written in a Turing-complete language. How

• taneliv 3y ago
  Whether it is actually more complex, I don't know. I didn't claim so for actual reasons, and your comment is one of them. I'm just a user, not a package or system maintainer, whose opinions are way more substantive than mine. Distributions have overwhelmingly chosen Systemd, so it seems obvious that it offers real benefits (including simplicity, I must assume). As a user I just lament the missed opportunity to simplify the system and service management also from my point of view. I don't see Systemd as simpler than other init systems, just different.