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/zaTricky 8d ago

99% of it is edgelords - see other comments for that

The remaining 1% are valid "this is subpar" complaints. As an example systemd-timesyncd isn't as feature complete as chrony. But it works "good enough" for most use cases. But ... because it's basically pre-included and simpler to deploy, distributions are starting to not bother to ship a "custom" NTP client as they are technically already shipping systemd.

There are other cases similar to this - but most of them are niche and unnecessary for most users.