What are the alternatives to systemd? Why people are hating it (besides the AI slop and age verification stub in it)? Why is it not written in the D programming language?
Old man yells in SysVInit
I yell in rcctl
Systemd and Wayland have become ragebait for some people.
Gentoo lured me into OpenRC a long time ago and it's just basically my go to now. It's just so easy and "feels" less bloated to me.
I like systemd because my distro came with it and my computer boots.
It's like that very very old joke...
Geek: "So then I brought the girl home..."
Excited crowd: "and then?"
Geek: "then I pushed the keyboard and sat her on my desk..."
Excited crowd: "woah, you have a PC? What processor do you have? Do you overclock? What cooling do you use?"
at first i read it as greek and was very confused
I was genuinely looking for alternatives to systemd, just because I was curious.
I stumbled upon: https://nosystemd.org/
The anger sits deep. What a beautiful sight.
Damn, that's some massive copium on that site.
It's like the Amish but with operating systems. Technology has advanced this far but must advance no further.
I still don't understand what it is and I read it. Oh, well. *continues with Mint*
It is a discussion about the UNIX philosophy and architecture and it is not about functionality. That’s why it seems to be a bit short-sighted. However, I do understand both sides, but I would never go this far and create a website to promote my views and opinions.
It is as if you had a discussion between team emacs and team vim.
Even though that the reliability of OpenRC is 0.00000001% higher, they keep forgetting about operational costs. And since my day only has 24h, I’d rather be able to copy&paste an installation script from the Docker website (which includes systemd commands), instead of manually writing it and losing 30min of that day.
But you know, to each their own. I love OpenRC, I love systemd.
Hint: :q!
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