Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I’ve been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I’m surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.

https://nosystemd.org/.

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    181·
    7 hours ago

    Honestly for desktop usage it doesn’t really matter. All inits have their idiosyncrasies (“A stop job is running for Session”/logging hell on openrc/etc). But for managing a fleet of bare-metal servers I find systemd to be the best, most polished one out of the lot.

    • arsCynic@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      91·
      7 hours ago

      Honestly for desktop usage it doesn’t really matter.

      Which is a big reason why the systemd dominance irks me.

      But for managing a fleet of bare-metal servers I find systemd to be the best, most polished one out of the lot.

      Fair enough. My experience lies mainly with the former so I cannot argue this.