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?
Is there somewhere I can read about the Debian wars? I am curious about that 🤓
I also think that sounds intriguing.
Prepare for a rabbit hole… but this ought to get you started…
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708
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