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, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.
Use what works for you.
Develop what scratches your itch.
Don’t tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.
If you want a solution that’s non-systemd go for it. If it doesn’t exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That’s the way of the Bazaar.
I’ll be in my unenlightened “things work for me good enough” Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I’m not even sure I can remember any.
Huge thank you’s to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!
Systemd is developed primarily by paid developers.
I think that is a good thing, isn’t it?
Of course it is, I was just addressing the part about “unpaid volunteers”. I think it’s fair game to criticize a corporation throwing their weight around to push their tools on the ecosystem.
True, but many don’t know other init systems might work for them because of the same wrong assumption I had.
Definitely. One big ecosystem with a multitude of developers working on a multitude of projects.