I also never understood the disdain for it. I feel like 15 minutes of reading about systemd keywords and I was on my way to making some very usable and reliable systemd scripts.
I don’t use sysv init anymore but I don’t feel like I ever fully understood those scripts.
I get the disdain. Beyond just reacting to change, systemv is fully scripted and thus a lot more accessible - one can read the source and understand what is happening fully once the kernel is done. On the other hand with systemd I feel we get this opaque magical complexity encroaching into previously fully grokkable user space and that is very hard to take, regardless of actual pros and cons.
foobarian|2 years ago