SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time.
I’m old enough to remember plymouth.service (graphical image) being the most slowest service on boot in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. But I don’t see that as an issue anymore. I don’t have a graphical systemD boot on my Arch but I installed Fedora Sericea and it actually boots faster than my Arch despite the plymouth (or whatever they call it nowadays).
My 2 questions:
- Is the current SystemD rant derived from years ago (while they’ve improved a lot)?
- Should Linux community rant about bigger problems such as Wayland related things not ready for current needs of normies?
No, you be honest. Have you ever tried any of the others? Granted sysvinit is painful to work with, but that’s ancient. Have you tried any of the modern ones, like OpenRC? Sounds like you haven’t. I can’t imagine someone experiencing OpenRC and then arguing for systemd.
I was on openrc on my Gentoo machines for years but most of the scripts I wrote myself were for RHEL and Debian servers. Openrc was just as bad as the other script-based systems.