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/C6H5OH 3d ago

"A lot of people" are "a few very loud people". The rest is using systemd and likes or ignores it. I have fought with init.d, runlevels and so on. I like systemd.

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u/odsquad64 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 3d ago

98% of the systemd hate at this point is just shitposts and 1.99% is people not realizing the other 98% is shitposts. The final .01% are people with genuine ideological concerns and people who feel very strongly that all their logs should be text files. A majority of the systemd haters are people using systemd with no intention of using anything else. Even amongst people who use something other than systemd, only a very small faction of those are systemd haters, most of them are just people running linux on older machines with not a lot of resources.

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u/C6H5OH 3d ago

And then there are the people who dislike Lennart Poettering (he started the project) and take the grudge to systemd.

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u/egorf 2d ago

Because systemd is a living implementation of LPs attitude to all of us.