systemd(ont)

Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of _systemd_ I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd …

for script in $(find /etc/init/start); do exec $script & done sleep

Undoubtedly the best init system that exists. No fluff, just starts services.

Why do you need services at all? Just start each program when you need it. Shell is bloat.
I’ve never had systemd break either

I have. Never had your machine just sit there and refuse to boot because a network share is down? Or because the wifi isn’t connected yet? Or because its waiting on some nebulous thing until timeout…

Never had to crawl through journalctl to diagnose things and wanted to claw your own eyes out in frustration?

You are a fortunate person.

I hate thoose timeouts. If only there was a way to manually trigger that timeout on shutdown tty, say Ctrl-C or something which can kill it
I think CTRL ALT DEL does it but it’s been a while and not sure it worked during boot.

Use what works for you.

Develop what scratches your itch.

Don’t tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.

If you want a solution that’s non-systemd go for it. If it doesn’t exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That’s the way of the Bazaar.

I’ll be in my unenlightened “things work for me good enough” Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I’m not even sure I can remember any.

Huge thank you’s to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!

Systemd is developed primarily by paid developers.
Boot speed is meaningless. Having to almost never reboot is everything.