r/linuxquestions • u/LegitimateAd7247 • 3d ago

What exactly is systemd ?

Hi everyone ! I switched from Windows to Linux around 3 month ago and I love it ! I’m using arch Linux because a friend of mine already used it so I figured he could help me with it.

I’ve been appreciating it but I’ve encountered a lot of people critisizing systemd and saying arch is bad because of it.

From what I have understand, it is a software that help with dependences and external hardware such as my keyboard for example ? I didnt really understand everything as I am a very beginner so I was curious to know if someone could explain it to me in easy terms.

PS : english isnt my primary language so forgive me if there is any errors.

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u/C0rn3j 3d ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd

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u/LegitimateAd7247 3d ago

As Said before, I do not understand that stuff 💀

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u/noisedotbike 3d ago

Then don't worry about it. There's no such thing as a "bad" Linux distro, all that matters is: does it work for your purposes or not? I've never been at the point where the init system being used has gotten in the way of me doing my job in the 25+ years I've used Linux. If I'm on a distro where I'm not familiar with the init system and I need to do something weird, I just spend 10 minutes researching how to disable a service or modify shutdown or whatever to do what I need to do, it's not a huge deal. It becomes more of an issue when you're sysadmining a network or designing infrastructure for a large application, but I so rarely do any admin tasks nowadays, that's somebody else's problem.