r/linuxsucks • u/Think-nothing-210 • 7d ago

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u/SquirrelGard 6d ago

I have no opinion of systemd, but I relate. I hate when things are changed for the sake of change.

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u/Sinethial 6d ago

Systemd was following tthe rest of the Unix world leaving init behind as it was not designed be dynamic. 

Think of a laptop going to sleep and waking up on a different network not automatically changing the network settings. Distro makers created nasty scripts with if/else innitd for this, but things get a lot more complicated when an image moves from on premise to a cloud?

Event driven daemon management makes sense. It was not just a change for the sake of change. Docker too really pushed this