SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time.
I’m old enough to remember plymouth.service (graphical image) being the most slowest service on boot in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. But I don’t see that as an issue anymore. I don’t have a graphical systemD boot on my Arch but I installed Fedora Sericea and it actually boots faster than my Arch despite the plymouth (or whatever they call it nowadays).
My 2 questions:
- Is the current SystemD rant derived from years ago (while they’ve improved a lot)?
- Should Linux community rant about bigger problems such as Wayland related things not ready for current needs of normies?
How is Gnome bad for the ecosystem long term? I get that there are things that the Gnome devs do which are controversial, and they have no problem removing options from their own projects, but they have also created a fairly cohesive user experience. I’m currently running KDE, and there is a lot I don’t like about some of Gnome’s choices, but I don’t think they are bad for the ecosystem.