There were dozens of other init systems that, like systemd, wasn't a shell script.
What set systemd apart is the collection of tightly integrated utilities such as a dns resolver, sntp client, core dump handler, rpc-like api linking to complex libraries in the hot path and so on and so forth that has been a constant stream of security exploits for over a decade now.
This is a case where the critics were proven to be right. Complexity increases the cognitive burden.
The trick is the same: use a popular linux distribution and don't fight the kinks.
The people who had no issues with Pulseaudio; used a mainstream distribution. Those distributions did the heavy lifting of making sure stuff fit together in a cohesive way.
SystemD is very opinionated, so you'd assume it wouldn't have the same results, but it does.. if you use a popular distro then they've done a lot of the hard work that makes systemd function smooth.
I was today years old when I realised this is true for both bits of poetter-ware. Weird.
You think?
It took us nearly a decade and a half to unfuck the pulseaudio situation and finally arrive at a simple solution (pipewire).
SystemD has a lot more people refining it down but a clean (under the hood) implementation probably won't be witnessed in my lifetime.
yeah, the fix for pulseaudio was to throw it away entirely
for systemd, I don't think I have a single linux system that boots/reboots reliably 100% of the time these days
There were dozens of other init systems that, like systemd, wasn't a shell script.
What set systemd apart is the collection of tightly integrated utilities such as a dns resolver, sntp client, core dump handler, rpc-like api linking to complex libraries in the hot path and so on and so forth that has been a constant stream of security exploits for over a decade now.
This is a case where the critics were proven to be right. Complexity increases the cognitive burden.
The trick is the same: use a popular linux distribution and don't fight the kinks.
The people who had no issues with Pulseaudio; used a mainstream distribution. Those distributions did the heavy lifting of making sure stuff fit together in a cohesive way.
SystemD is very opinionated, so you'd assume it wouldn't have the same results, but it does.. if you use a popular distro then they've done a lot of the hard work that makes systemd function smooth.
I was today years old when I realised this is true for both bits of poetter-ware. Weird.
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LP is the Thomas Midgley Jr of Computer Science.
I thought he had proven that he leaves before the project is complete and functioning according to all the promises made.