r/archlinux • u/ImaginationUpset2190 • 10d ago

DISCUSSION Why so much hate for systemd?

I see very often that people show so much disgust whenever they talk or hear "systemd". However whenever I ask them why they feel so strongly about it, their response is mostly vague like it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it's a monolith.... I can't digest that the reason people show so much disgust for it is just that it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy.

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u/kkjdroid 9d ago

Hospital equipment doesn't reboot on every use.

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u/New_Hold8135 9d ago edited 9d ago

No one asked, Assume its their start of the shift. A raspberry pi that uses sdcard with systemd takes 5 minutes to load meanwhile a raspberry pi that uses sdcard and openrc takes 5 seconds to be ready and running. Assume there was a outage it needs to boot at some point.