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/.

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  • Scoopta@programming.dev
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    2 days 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·
      2 days 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.

      • Scoopta@programming.dev
        1·
        2 days ago

        🤔, I’m not sure what would cause it to break other than a misconfiguration, my setup isn’t stock though, my most recent endeavor was migrating to a VTless system, so I do a lot of “different” and non-conventional things. Sure I’ve had configs break but it’s because I made a mistake, that’s not the init’s fault.