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. I’d suggest trying it out.

https://nosystemd.org/.

OC writeup by @arsCynic@piefed.social

  • Scoopta@programming.dev
    7·
    7 hours ago

    Having run both systemd and sysv, they both never really break in my experience unless it’s self inflicted. I don’t think I’ve ever just had one break randomly, the systemd recovery environment is much better when there is a breakage, and I’m not sure the boot times are really any different in my setup. Maybe if I tried something a little more parallel than sysv they’d be faster but eh.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      There’s a good reason sysv isn’t on the meme.

      If you think it never broke, that’s because you weren’t doing anything different or creating anything that required it.

      That said, systemd had a tendency to break even if you didn’t either. But nowadays the bugs are mostly fixed, and the stupidity is contained on parts people mostly don’t adopt.