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to systemd or not to systemd? that is the question. (midwest.social)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/linux4noobs

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thoughts, comments, concerns on systemd? was having a convo w someone that's on mx linux & it piqued my interest.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

After 12 years (me converting in 2013 to systemd on Arch BTW)
I can say we finally have standardization between major distributions.
OpenRC, SysV or Upstart...? How to do things...

Real boot time improvement.
Real multiple instances of the same service ([email protected]).
Drop-in overrides. Builtin DNS cache, timesync, syslog, cron (kinda, timers have new syntax),
cgroups, boot manager, network manager, containers, and more...

Not a Unix or KISS philosophy, but come on, we need a fresh blood.
There is no "next gen" kernel/operating system in the horizon.

I have Devuan and PostmarketOS (Alpine with desktop environment),
I feel like a caveman. Things which are easy to do in systemd, in OpenRC are not trival.
OpenRC in Gentoo is not the same as in Devuan.

Also, more and more software is systemd-centric.

However.
I encourage you to discover Linux without systemd first (extra layer of abstraction may be difficult during learning).

[–] moonpiedumplings 2 points 1 day ago

PostmarketOS is switching to systemd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Real boot time improvement.

I still remember the switch, this was amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you tried Chimera yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's in very experimental stage.
It will go mainstream or be like a university paper.