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/.

  • Obin@feddit.org
    41·
    7 hours ago

    These days OpenRC even has user-services. And writing a simple OpenRC service file is barely more complex than a systemd unit file, maybe even simpler, because it’s readable bash, not some declarative DSL.

    Obviously there is in no way feature parity between those two, that’s the point, personally the one thing I’d like to have is something similar to systemd’s timers (which I actually prefer to old-school cron) built into OpenRC, but most other things I can live without.