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

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t get that as a problem, my systems are systemd and boot is 10s, and shutdown is 8s. And that’s not a super highend machine.

    Let’s say you get a 5 second boot? So what , what will you gain in 5 seconds. You aren’t running critical military intelligence network or something.

    • arsCynic@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      You aren’t running critical military intelligence network or something.

      That’s not the point. Performance tweaking operating systems is fun for the heck of it. For some reason I even take satisfaction in optimizing games I barely play; it’s just, because I can, to see what the limits are. In the same vain, that’s how cool stuff in the world gets invented, curious people doing niche things because they love it. Not because of military urgency which is an often regurgitated myth.