lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)

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  • After 12 years (me converting in 2013 to systemd on Arch BTW)
    I can say we finally have standardization between major distributions.
    OpenRC, SysV or Upstart…? How to do things…

    Real boot time improvement.
    Real multiple instances of the same service (service-name@xyz.sevice).
    Drop-in overrides. Builtin DNS cache, timesync, syslog, cron (kinda, timers have new syntax),
    cgroups, boot manager, network manager, containers, and more…

    Not a Unix or KISS philosophy, but come on, we need a fresh blood.
    There is no “next gen” kernel/operating system in the horizon.

    I have Devuan and PostmarketOS (Alpine with desktop environment),
    I feel like a caveman. Things which are easy to do in systemd, in OpenRC are not trival.
    OpenRC in Gentoo is not the same as in Devuan.

    Also, more and more software is systemd-centric.

    However.
    I encourage you to discover Linux without systemd first (extra layer of abstraction may be difficult during learning).