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It hinges upon the fact that people are more likely to be vocal when they don't like something than when they do. Consider online reviews: are you more likely t
by kbuck 12y ago
It hinges upon the fact that people are more likely to be vocal when they don't like something than when they do. Consider online reviews: are you more likely to review a product when it's worked fine as you expected or when it died a month after you got it?
systemd has both good aspects (e.g. faster boot times and removal of the nasty nest of shell scripts) as well as bad ones (incredibly monolithic). There are arguments on both sides of the fence. It's just that you're more likely to hear from people who dislike something than you are to hear from people that like it. (And at this point most of the systemd proponents have given up talking about it because of the incredibly vocal and relentless opposition.)
- jqm 12y ago"removal of the nasty nest of shell scripts" What one person finds nasty another may find sexy.
- zanny 12y agoThen feel free to use shell based init. Meanwhile, there is a strong concensus in Linux distros that the maintainers thought shell scripts were not sexy, and systemd unit files were, and thus everyone has / is switching.
- jqm 12y ago"Everyone" has not switched nor is "everyone" switching. Most distros are yes. Some are not. Personally I like shell scripts and plan to continue using them as long as feasible. They work, and when/if they don't, I can usually find out why. "Strong consensus" might be good argument for some people. I personally find it a fallacious appeal to popularity.
- davrosthedalek 12y agoAdditionally,I would argue that distros are switching because of gnome, not because they like systemd so much.
- Tuna-Fish 12y agoI'd like to point out that logind can be used without systemd using systemd-shim. So you can use fully featured GNOME without systemd.
- pantalaimon 12y agoYea it's called a fetish
- simoncion 12y ago> (e.g. faster boot times and removal of the nasty nest of shell scripts) OpenRC does this quite nicely. Gentoo has been using it as the default init since at least 2011.