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?
Linux itself (i.e. the kernel) breaks the hell out of that so-called core tenet. Have you looked at
make menuconfigat any point? There’s everything but the kitchen sink in there.There’s been a lot of work over the years to make the kernel far more modular than it used to be and that’s why linux an run on extremely small resource footprints; because you can leave out the bits you don’t want.
And? Most of the programs that come with systemd are optional; they have separate services that can be disabled if you don’t want to use them.
Apples to oranges, and you can have a minimal kernel tailored to your needs.
Unless I’m mistaken, you can also not run most of the programs that systemd comes with, and just use the process supervisor. You’d be missing out on some cool functionality, though, like being able to query system logs in a way that vaguely resembles a database.