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Ranting, especially on work made by the community* is bad, i know but my frustration comes because it has not be like that. systemd is bloat, madness ...

Linux has improved on so many front, is better than ever but this pile of crap is threatening everything.

*systemd is IBM, so not really community, so it's fine :)

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[–] _cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone who has used linux for >25 years and has experienced the madness of SysV init scripts for decades (well, only two, but the plural is still technically correct; the best kind of correct), I have a very hard time to take people who make posts like these serious.

[–] kherge@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

There are people like you, and then there are people who refuse to learn new things.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm like you, good old init in the 90s on Linux or BSD , we had init, inetd, and like 10 process, no X, it was cool and easy. Init and rc started becoming bloated and complicated sometimes. I don't hate systemd, it does its thing right, I used Ubuntu for years and systemd without issue. Now I'm using MX that supports both, best of both world.

[–] gbrlsnchs@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Ok but nowadays there are alternatives to systemd (OpenRC, runit). Not necessarily better, just alternatives. No SysV init involved.