I don't think people complain about systemd being slow. It's supposed to be faster than initV because of parallel/delayed startup. But initV is the wrong compa

I don't think people complain about systemd being slow. It's supposed to be faster than initV because of parallel/delayed startup. But initV is the wrong comparison point anyway. Runit, upstart, openRC are all much better than initV. I certainly had less problems with openRC on my gentoo box than with systemD on my ubuntu box -- mainly because of all the add-ons (ntp, dns etc.) beyond init itself.