← Back to context

Comment by taurknaut

3 months ago

> Nothing wrong with this if a system service is going to be present on 99.999% of installs

Is there a sign linux installs will hit this metric in our lifetime? I don't think there's any strong indication of this. There are multiple distros devoted to not moving to systemd.

> GNOME swapped its service manager for subprocesses (e.g. bluetooth) to systemd user units because it does a far better job.

Not on computers without systemd it doesn't! Besides, Gnome still runs just fine on systems with init scripts like *BSDs with no visible loss of quality or stability so this was a purely political choice to spite their own linux user base.

3 comments

taurknaut

Reply
ChocolateGod  3 months ago

> There are multiple distros devoted to not moving to systemd

Yes and zero have wide spread adoption outside of specific use cases (e.g. Alpine with containers, Android with its.. slop).

As far as base distros go, only RHEL and Debian have any wide spread impact and both use systemd.

> so this was a purely political choice to spite their own linux user base.

It's possible the old system exists as a fallback, but it wouldn't surprise me if its not guaranteed to stay around. People aren't required to support other peoples choices unless you pay them.