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?
Fedora uses dracut as opposed to initramfs, so that’s also a major difference.
dracut is just an initramfs generator, last I checked.
It is, but has drastically different behavior compared to mkinitcpio or booster. Booting a USB device fails when the image is generated with dracut on main machine, whereas neither of the alternatives exhibit such issues. Also, using booster just “felt” faster on my 6198DU machine.
Fair enough. I don’t actually need an initramfs for any of my machines at the moment, so I have only a superficial knowledge.