When I just see my TV taking Linux updates it makes me feel so cozy. For context sake I have a veroV running osmc.

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    I actually seen some people with this Lind of opinion regarding systemd, but I still do not get the hatted about it.

    Can you elaborate what is so terrible about systemd?

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        2 months ago

        It may have been a thing discussed ad nauseum on certain threads. I just wanted to understand if there are facts that make systemd bad in general

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          Well, my experience was

          1. why a service misbehaved, can’t get smart from that log dump
          2. configuring DNS, got annoyed that it was yet again something Systemd does itself and in a poor mans way, despite there being tools and standards for tens of years.
          3. Then found out about their security track record and that it all runs as PID 1 (more power than even root)

          All in all, it works very contrary to my experience that layers upon layers leads to unmanageable complexity and inefficinecy and it’s all implemented in a poor way, functionally (some will likely disagree to this).

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            Thanks for the response. Right now I do not have enough knowledge to judge for myself if systemd is effectively great or not. Once I have the time I will check closer kernel architecture (theoretical wise), then in how the Linux kernel is effectively organized and only after that understand the theory behind systemd. I’ve seen several threads where 2 very different camps exists, but I was not entirely sure of the information I was getting.

            Cannot say I will get around this, but for sure peeks my curiosity

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      The unix philosophy is that a piece of software should do one thing, and do it well. Systemd does a dozen things, all of them poorly.

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              Linux is a kernel. The kernel modules, services, userland, etc. are all modular and can be used independently. Not so with systemd (at least how it’s implemented in most distros).