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Is Systemd that bad afterall? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time.

I'm old enough to remember plymouth.service (graphical image) being the most slowest service on boot in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. But I don't see that as an issue anymore. I don't have a graphical systemD boot on my Arch but I installed Fedora Sericea and it actually boots faster than my Arch despite the plymouth (or whatever they call it nowadays).

My 2 questions:

Is the current SystemD rant derived from years ago (while they've improved a lot)?
Should Linux community rant about bigger problems such as Wayland related things not ready for current needs of normies?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As someone who recently started learning linux properly by setting up arch, systemd is nice. It does a lot of things that make life easier for me and it never gets in the way.

Edit: Please disregard, this should be a top level comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why did you ctrl c ctrl v your own comment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it was intended to be a top level comment and I only noticed that I wasn't commenting on top level after posting it.

Did the deletion of this one not get through to your instance yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh, lol, it's fine

Did the deletion of this one not get through to your instance yet?

probably

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

Alright, I thought I was quick enough but deletion seems to work differently in the federation. I restored the comment and added an edit, that should avoid confusion once everything is synced properly.