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What's wrong with systemd? From the user's perspective, it streamlines managing services in a uniform way. It's good that journalctl, systemctl, systemd-analyze
by ducktective 2y ago
What's wrong with systemd? From the user's perspective, it streamlines managing services in a uniform way. It's good that journalctl, systemctl, systemd-analyze work on pretty much every desktop and server OS.
- pimeys 2y agoI've used it for as long as it was introduced in Arch back in the days. The system update was an... experience then but that is the only bad thing I can think of. I'm now using systemd, Wayland, Pipewire and all that in my NixOS installation and can't understand the hate. People should maybe just let go...
- immibis 2y agoThe systemctl start/stop/status is no problem and better than init scripts (everything is better than init scripts). The issues stem from the complexity of the system and the amount that each module wants you to use it with other modules. A simple version of the same is runit. Side by side, you can see the complexity differs by orders of magnitude.