interdimensionalmeme comments on Noone told me about systemctl suspend. I had to accidently learn about it from the arch pages. My battery is happy now, and you all will never be forgiven for your silence. That is all.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I understand the concerns about blobbification of all these system into a technical monolith that you have to swallow whole or not at all, that you can't really break down into it's individual components. So if the thing you need isn't in there, you have to chuck the entire systemd thing and switch back to SysV

However, I quite like systemd so far.... except for having dozens of processes, that's not super chill to have so much stuff I don't use running but OK, convenient.

At least it's not like Wayland, that we have been forced into while it was barely working, and still today it's only kinda working with lot lot lots of non-working stuff and mega jank stuff while now X11 is rotting and dying. So we're stuck with half-dead half-lobotomized graphics system.. I hope they eventually get their shit together and I wish they would have made wayland working before killing X11.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

And Linux has quite some pragmatic people as well, first of all Linus Torvalds himself, who has kind of a down-to-earth approach towards ideology.

I've not yet talked to a SystemD hater in real life, that seems to be more predominant between random people on the internet. And I myself prefer writing SystemD unit files over what I had to do before that was a thing.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most people also don't talk about init systems in real life.

I have, though, I was asked my opinion on systemd during a job interview. The interviewer didn't give much of their own opinion but it was obvious.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I interviewed for a job that required a lot of Systemd work. I crushed the practicum super hard and my genius new boss teached numa pessimization for DB load (bit if a click bait start but she hashed it out perfectly and it will come up again) before I declined on rates.

It's not that it's hard work. It's that Systemd is a bad tool; and we deserve the day of crying wreckage it will gleefully cause one day.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol. I suppose it's a promising way to learn how someone thinks and reacts, see if they're focused on solving issues or focused on drama... And how deep they are into Linux lore. And whether they understand it or parrot someone else's talking points.

Idk. I rarely have long nerd discussions, but once I'm done with the latest Star Trek show, I occasionally ask people about their stance on SystemD, some instant messenger or whether we should stick to C99. And either we skip that, or maybe I'll hear some interesting, unique perspective shaped by what they do.

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