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systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success (blog.tjll.net)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I don’t think I could name one thing that systemd improved for me. But I can name at least one major annoyance that made things worse for me.

The real issue is the backwards incompatibility which essentially forced everyone to switch instead of being able to choose.

For that alone I will keep disliking it.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not specifically about systemd, but some things can't be backwards compatible because they might want to just do things different.

    Nobody was forced to change, the distros saw the options and decided in favor of systemd, the same they decide a million other things.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Systemd usually can't be in the same repo with other init systems/service managers (or with shims and hacks) *, while they themselves happily coexist. This is the Reason that there are non-systemd distros, not some unreasonable hate for new thing or anything.

    * Yes, except Openrc, which was made as a drop-in for Systemd.

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