I feel like the people who complain about systemd have never tried to mess with sysVinit scripts before
6+ years ago, I was trying to configure a touchscreen HAT for a raspberry pi, and dicking with the init.rc script was a massive pain
The alternatives to systemd isnβt init.d or some other legacy init systems. I use runit, pretty easy to understand and use. Stop being lazy dude
Or dinit. dinit is awesome. s6 defeated me; an init system shouldnβt be that complex.
systemd has a lot of nice features, esp. in the area of dependencies and triggers. But it infects everything it touches, is enormous, and is buggy.
Frankly, Iβm waiting for the PipeWire successor to systemd. Like systemd, Pulseaudio was everywhere by the time enough people realized how bad it really was and someone wrote a well-designed, well-written replacement. ALSA has problems that Pulseaudio fixed, but with a badly written solution; then a good software developer came up with a good solution that solves the same problems but isnβt just a giant hacky hot mess and now PA is slowly being replaced everywhere. Given that the same person, of questionable skill, who wrote PA also wrote systemd, I fully expect a better-designed solution to replace systemd.
S6 isnβt it. dinit is close, but has some holes that need addressing before it could succeed systemd, and I think it wonβt be it; I think systemdβs successor hasnβt been written yet, but I have confidence it will be.
