In reference to: https://lemmy.world/post/23862757

I use Void btw

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Most people rejected his message.

“Systemd is Satan’s creation! Pure Evil!”

They hated Talking Pig because He told them the truth.

  • ZeroOne
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    14 months ago

    I still can’t wrap my head around why SystemD has become the defacto standard & why aren’t devs trying out OTHER init-systems

    • @rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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      4 months ago
      1. It was doing new things.
      2. It was easier to learn.
      3. The other init systems were (are) stagnant.

      Imagine trying to get new, young developers to adopt C or Pascal when the likes of Rust and Python exist. You can make arguments for a thing’s superiority based on moral standards (which are always subjective), but morality is a poor metric. If everything was done based on that, the Linux ecosystem would be in the same state as the GNU Hurd kernel.

    • @lurklurk@lemmy.world
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      44 months ago

      It’s pretty good at starting services. It just keeps adding bundled things people wouldn’t use otherwise, in a fairly microsoft fashion

        • esa
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          24 months ago

          Yes, always has been.

          There’s also no uppercase d in systemd, the word is entirely lowercase (but I’ll still write it with an uppercase s at the start of sentences).