@lieselotte I'm cleaning out my tabs now and noticed this toot didn't get answered (I had the one you were replying to open), so I might as well answer (even though that toot was talking about a different phoenomenon entirely)

the three most frequently cited criticisms, in no order:

1) systemd is a massive program that does everything all in one place, even if it's split across several (intertwined) libraries, and some people want strict separation of responsibilities

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1b) it also has swallowed some smaller projects as part of that goal, but see point 3 (the projects it swallowed are by those guys)

2) systemd is highly Linux-specific, to the point that some people are afraid that (continuing from 1 and 1b) programmers are going to hard-depend on systemd unintentionally and then Linux will either be the only Unix left or systemd will be the only init left; as much as some hate it, linux must be at least a little about choice

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3) the two principal authors of systemd, Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers, are well known for being massive narcissists, to the point that they claim they have full reign over linux (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html) and close bugs related to hardware configurations that actual people use because they don't care about them (which I thought I had a link about but I can't find it right now; look on bugs.freedesktop.org)

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