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?
There was lots written about it at the time, it split the community hugely - even resulting in a bunch of previously dedicated Debian people getting so upset they went off and created their own distro - Devuan, which is Debian without systemd.
Here’s one article - but do remember this was a long time in the past and many of us don’t want to go back there… https://www.pcworld.com/article/436680/meet-devuan-the-debian-fork-born-from-a-bitter-systemd-revolt.html