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?
It’s one of those divisive FOSS matters that get parroted endlessly by people who think they’re smarter than they really are.
Does systemd have its problems? Sure.
Do those problems actually affect most of the people complaining? No.
See also: “Linus said something funny ten years ago, and I heard from a guy who heard from a guy who heard from a guy who once had to edit xorg.conf by hand, so Nvidia is awful forever for everyone!”