Post #2095400

2026-05-06 17:03 UTC

It’s Open Source. Nobody needs to use it I didn’t mention anything about people needing to use it. You have distros that have communal decision making, and if they find a benefit to systemd, then they’ll use systemd. Don’t use that distro if you don’t like it. There’s your freedom of choice. I don’t have an issue with distros using systemd, my issue lies in how major distributions implemented systemd, which created an environment where app developers have to build for the most common init system in mind, you don’t think that’s an issue? having apps only compatible with one init system like how some apps are only compatible with windows, that’s not libre, its still pushing users towards a specific obvious choice

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@hobata@lemmy.ml 2026-05-06 17:22

systemd works best, scales well and causes less pain at maintaining

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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 18:50

You sound new to the ecosystem at large, and I don’t mean that to be condescending, just that you may not have all the context needed to understand why it exists. Any distro that exists right now can flip back to SysV if they want to. They just don’t want to. It may be more flexible to the neckbeards, but it’s massively more comprehensive in scaling and integrating than a set of Init scripts. It has huge benefits to system integrators, OEMs, and especially the people who manage the largest concentration of Linux deployments: Datacenter Ops teams. The fact that you, a Desktop user takes issue with that is meaningless to the ecosystem at large. I manage thousands of deployed bare metal machines, and I’d switch back, because it SysV was fucking painful. Sure it was easier to debug in some cases, but was it as useful or reliable? Not even close. Just go use something else and stop letting it bother you. You’ll feel better in the long run.

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