Do you like systemd?

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BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 154 pts · 324d (4 replies)
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 44 pts · 324d

I fully agree. I am a user with a bit of technical background, but not a lot of detailled knowledge about the inner workings of an operating system (i know boolean logic and basic programming structures - in Pascal lol - from the 90's, what a transistor does and stuff, how to build my own PCs and handle filesystems and troubleshooting).

With init scripts, i hit a wall pretty fast.

With Systemd i know how to start, stop and configure services, and the suite built around it uses the same conventions everywhere, making the everyday life with Linux for someone like me so much easier and more transparent than ever before.

michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Have you considered that just "reaping old process IDs" wasn't enough responsibility for an init daemon on a secure, robust system? That maybe it should be protecting other parts of the system and tracking the liveness of a desired service?

What is the benefit of specifically doing that in init?

If I see an argument like this then I can only assume the interlocutor doesn't do software engineering.

Its more likely that the user simply has simple needs like running stuff at startup which any init system can do and doesn't see as much benefits as poster.

Also who loves systemd-resolved?

azertyfun@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 323d

Being able to assign a nameserver per interface with a domain wildcard is a fucking godsend. I use it every day with a hook script because my job uses some private domains but I don't want to send my entire DNS history through the VPN. Now ~job.com goes to tun0 and that's the end of it.

systemd-resolved is not perfect but with libnss's overly rigid nature the only alternative for my use-case would be to recreate similar functionality to resolved with dnsmasq – which is just objectively worse especially when you want to use DHCP sometimes but not always. Why reinvent the wheel? resolved does its job and does it well. I had some issues with it a few years ago but have been using it for the past couple years without complaint.

anyhow2503@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 324d

What is the benefit of specifically doing that in init?

What's the alternative?

Also who loves systemd-resolved?

I don't think I will ever love anything DNS-related, but it's still the best solution I've used for name resolution on a system with many interfaces.

Rooty@lemmy.world · 120 pts · 324d (12 replies)

The other day I wrote I like snaps and shot more rope than Spiderman.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 55 pts · 324d (11 replies)

Flatpak is amazing especially with storage being so cheap these days.

ikidd@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 324d

OK, Satan.

Lag@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 324d

Just replying to keep the vibes going.

Rooty@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 324d (1 reply)

I still remember the bad old days of stale repositories and compiling from scratch. Never again.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 324d

There was 25 years between c;m;mi and lennart's cancer, filled with excellent choices better than either.

Cenzorrll@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 323d (6 replies)

I just had an issue with the vscodium flatpak, been using it for two months with no issue in an online course, got to learning GUIs, import module, doesn't exist. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't there, installed three different python versions of it three different ways, still nothing. Couldn't even get vscodium to point to a different interpreter that I knew was there (yet it doesn't say it's not there, just that some things won't work). Still nothing. Three hours later, after trying everything I could think of, I realized that it was because I installed the flatpak version when it clicked that it worked in Geany and I didn't have python 3.13 in my repos, yet that was the only one I could see in vscodium.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 323d (5 replies)

That sounds like user error.

Cenzorrll@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 323d (1 reply)

Vscodium isn't in the repos for opensuse, but yes, this user should have found a way to install it on bare metal in the first place.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 323d

Have you tried butterflies?

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 322d (2 replies)

From a broad enough perspective, everything is user error

skarn@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Except when the error is in the chip architecture.

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 314d

No that was me

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 89 pts · 324d (4 replies)

Systemd is the greatest innovation that Linux has ever seen bar none.

Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 44 pts · 324d

Since I started actually doing system administration and actually interacting directly with SystemD all of the hate for it I'd soaked up from enthusiast forums melted away. I've never used any of the other init systems so maybe I'm missing out, but I do appreciate SystemD for what it does

Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 324d (1 reply)

bwwwwt

JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 9 pts · 324d

Happy cake day

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 324d

pipewire feels close

elvith@feddit.org · 87 pts · 324d (8 replies)

Rule 34:

If there's a user base, there's buttplug.io support...

Deme@sopuli.xyz · 37 pts · 324d (5 replies)

Error: That number is already picked for a different rule. Please select a different number.

elvith@feddit.org · 14 pts · 324d (1 reply)

Sigh

sudo Rule 34:

If there's a user base, there's buttplug.io support...

--force

snooggums@piefed.world · 13 pts · 323d

If you used the right amount of lube you wouldn't have to force!

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Maybe consider rule 33. 'Lurk more its never enough'

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 324d (1 reply)

That's taken too.

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 323d

Lurk more its never enough is rule 33.

https://rules.nebula-system.com/rule-33

Which you didn't follow.

ODGreen@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 324d

Let's hope the user base is flared.

EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 323d

"I know my playerbase." -Hakita, the dev of Ultrakill

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org · 70 pts · 324d (13 replies)

Okay, so, this place IS filled with furries. Cool.

Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 67 pts · 324d

Linux wouldn't work without furries

cadekat@pawb.social · 44 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Every online space is filled with furries, especially the most furry-hostile spaces!

kameecoding@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 324d (1 reply)

That's disgusting, I prefer furry-hostile tabs!

QuazarOmega@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 324d

I love it when the hostility adapts to my system

rtxn@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 324d

We're all shipping the penguin and the wildebeest.

fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 324d

:3

obscur_3@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 324d (6 replies)

Is putting phone in ass a furry thing?

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 324d (4 replies)

The depicted character has a snout and cat ears

socsa@piefed.social · 11 pts · 324d (1 reply)

And an anus!

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 324d

and my axe

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 324d (1 reply)

maybe she was just born that way

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 323d

Why cat ears now, I can't say
Maybe she was just born that waaaaayyyyy

HouseWolf@pawb.social · 5 pts · 324d

Thought it was more a prison thing.

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 64 pts · 324d (5 replies)

Must your climax be fueled by our frustrations? Vibrators are cheap, you know.

archonet@lemy.lol · 62 pts · 324d (3 replies)

Must your climax be fueled by our frustrations?

Maybe that's exactly what gets him off.

tal@olio.cafe · 36 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Frankly, this should be implemented with something like a combination of:

https://github.com/QazCetelic/lemmy-know

Lemmy Know (let me know) is a lightweight CLI application / Docker service that monitors Lemmy for reports on posts and comments and sends notification. These can be sent to a Discord channel with a webhook or as MQTT messages (schema), which is useful for more complex setups with e.g., Node-RED.

https://www.home-assistant.io/

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/

MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.

https://github.com/DevelopmentalOctopus/ha-buttplug

Buttplug.io Integration for Home Assistant

https://intiface.com/central/

Intiface® Central is an open-source, cross-platform application that acts as a hub for intimate haptics/sensor hardware access

Some collection of hardware devices from:

https://iostindex.com/?filter0Availability=Available%2CDIY&filter1Connection=Digital&filter2ButtplugSupport=4

That'd permit for, say, having message events drive a state machine to control devices or something like that.

archonet@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 323d

I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed or disturbed by the amount of thought you've given this

whimsy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 324d

The unix shell pipeline keeps giving

harmbugler@piefed.social · 12 pts · 324d

It’s just not the same

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 324d

Please tell me your phone has a flared base?

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 324d (6 replies)

I still don't get what you guys have against Windows. Bill Gates has done so much good for the world.

(My body is ready.)

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 20 pts · 324d (1 reply)
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FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 9 pts · 324d

Wow there, easy, you’re gonna end up on ER.

At the very least take a smal phone.

PokerChips@programming.dev · 6 pts · 323d

Razzzzz

DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 323d (2 replies)

Bill Gates actually was pretty cool, it's windows after Bill Gates that's terrible. I can't say there was anything Bill Gates did that I didn't like, he was like the Gabe Newell of operating systems before steamdeck.

bobo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 323d (1 reply)

Put your phone on vibrate, etc...

DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 322d

I don't think this statement is controversial and besides I own sex toys lol.

Bill Gates was actually cool. The only bad thing he ever did as far as I'm aware, was lock direct X into windows. He even spends all of his time now in charity work and funding science. I think he was a great guy. This is why windows used to be the best operating system. He was smart and not overly greedy. He didn't care for spyware or corporate espionage on citizens. Windows was a relatively open system. Not as open as Linux, but very open and good, and it had excellent tools and a really good user interface. Now windows is terrible, but this is after he left Microsoft.

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 39 pts · 324d (22 replies)

I don't get the systemd hate. The most common complaint I see is that it's too bloated, but Arch uses it, so what gives? Is it just that people dislike change? Like Wayland hate (not Wayland frustration)?

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 324d (2 replies)

I'm more frustrated with GNOME devs sabotaging Wayland.

SpaceCadet@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 324d

That is a self-inflicted wound caused by how Wayland was designed, particularly the part where they offloaded so much responsibility onto the different compositors.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 323d

I'm more frustrated with GNOME devs...

Say no more!

PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 323d (7 replies)
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DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 323d

Lol strangely believable in these times.

bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 323d

Nice conspiracy theory.

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website · 7 pts · 323d

and all distros jumped into the honeypot

As a filthy casual this is the most distressing part.

I’ve observed the situation shift in just a few years from

Winter Systemd is coming”

To

Winter Systemd is here, it’s everywhere, and i hate it”

sheogorath@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d

Damn, really make sense. Especially nowadays a lot of distros now defaults to systemd.

seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 322d (1 reply)

mind sharing some sources?

PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 322d
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seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 322d

@grok, is this true?

jj4211@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 323d (1 reply)

Generally I see a few:

  • People wanting the highly deterministic, but slower behavior of the rc scripts.
  • People liking the fact that the rc startup was generally almost entirely defined in plain script files
  • Some folks criticizing certain opinionated things in systemd, as systemd delves deeper into things like capabilities and users.
  • Systemd can sometimes be a bit weird about how it does/does not capture stdout/stderr as one might guess in some situations.
  • Some folks not liking the journald angle of binary-only files

Mainly the last point is the only one I personally find potentially aggravating, but since I never really am in a broken system without journalctl I'm not too bothered by it. I have saved myself some effort thanks to systemd including stuff that the daemons used to provide for themselves.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 323d

People wanting the highly deterministic, but slower behavior of the rc scripts.

This is literally it for me. I got to work on an alpine system and it was like a breath of fresh air - I could edit the service script files directly. So easy, so little abstraction

erev@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 324d (6 replies)

So people hate on systemd because they interpret it as an init system thats gone too far and has thus violated the unix principle. in reality systemd is an entire suite of tools based around a very feature rich and robust service management suite that also includes an init system. there is something to be said about the Linux ecosystem's reliance on systemd, but there are no comparable tools. this is why Arch uses systemd. if you dont want to use systemd, you can use distros like Arco Linux; however currently Gnome no longer works on Arco

Verat@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 323d (3 replies)

Part of the problem with it is that it is very difficult not to use it, for instance if your code uses dbus, that makes systemd a dependency and almost all of the tools are like this. Want to use alternate software with systemd init? A-OK! want to use systemd tools without systemd init? Too bad! This inter-dependence is what I think makes it break the unix philosophy, its components dont like to be replaced or used outside of the "intended" environment of systemd init, keeping it from being replaced without breakage on lot of systems.

On my install for instance, systemd is roped in by xdg-user-dirs (and hence steam), flatpak, fcitx5, and cups. And that is just a few. So the init system isnt a problem to me, the lack of drop-in replacements for its suite of tools is.

erev@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 323d (2 replies)

I think the biggest problem is that developing each other underlying subsystems without the rest is a hassle. As such no one has come up with a non-systemd dbus replacement. But there is a lot that can be replaced. There are some systemd services i just turn off immediately woth new installs and use something else because they're such dogshit (looking at you resolved).

god i fucking hate systemd-resolved

lightsblinken@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d (1 reply)

+1 on systemd-resolved. dumpster fire of horribleness. i dont mind 99% of systemd subsystems, but this one tips me over the edge, hard.

erev@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d

it pisses me off so much. what do you mean theres no way to set the priority of nameservers or to force them to be resolved in a specific order? no i don't want a public nameserver thats only there as backup to take precedence over my local nameserver thats necessary for kerberos to work!

BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 324d (1 reply)

So you're saying systemd is the emacs of init?

erev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 323d

if sysv init or open rc are ed and sed, then systemd is Visual Studio or Pycharm; they have some functionality that overlaps but they scopes of what they do are completely different

mittorn@masturbated.one · 1 pts · 324d (1 reply)

@JackbyDev @nutbutter
People dislike unwanted change. Imagine, you are using some distro for years, and after some update everything changes and you cannot configure system usual way. Many software is changing behaviour You need read tons of docs to change something or worse, while your system hang at boot.
My first try using systemd ended in kernel hang after too much systemd's dmesg flooding (that was slow arm board, so it's unlikely someone might help me with debugging it)
But yes, many people just hate systemd because it was forced change, not even because it's too complex

Ferk@programming.dev · 3 pts · 323d

I'd argue that the systemd trend actually is the one that's change-adverse.

I remember that before systemd there was a lot of innovation when it comes to init systems… the flexibility of the script-based inits made it so most distros had their own spin. And there was more diversity in components that now are part of systemd. I’d argue that ever since systemd became the de-facto standard, innovation in those areas has become niche. Distros are becoming more homogeneous and less open to changes in that sense. Some components are becoming more and more interdependent and it's becoming harder to ship, for example, Gnome, without systemd.

CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 324d

I just like being able to use things I learn across Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and RHEL.

Also prefixing a command with systemd-cat and having the logs go to the journal is pretty nice. Then I don't have to worry about rotating them.

nialv7@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 324d (5 replies)

may i ask you to kindly provide the source of this image?

real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 324d (4 replies)

frenky_hw, here's the specific image: twitter (hopefully it is, twitter doesn't work for me rn)

tal@olio.cafe · 23 pts · 324d (2 replies)
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 324d (1 reply)

Tal out here giving solutions

QuazarOmega@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 324d

An admirable example of working harder, not smarter

nialv7@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 324d

tysm❤️

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 29 pts · 324d (2 replies)

She wants the system's D. 😏

mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 323d

She?? Expect the unexpected here

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 324d

System Deez nutz

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Listen, we've all done it.

We all have bash or fish or zsh aliases to do it in command.

We all love the feeling of a pulsing phone in our asses.

But we don't talk about it.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 323d (1 reply)

But we don’t talk about it.

oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 323d

The first rule of FUDposting club.

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 323d (2 replies)

Systemd is fine.

Journald is fine.

But someone pass me a mace I can beat systemd-resolved and systemd-logind to death with

EDIT: Oh come on

Regalia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 323d (1 reply)

You'll love resolved when you have to deal with split DNS ;)

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 323d

Oh trust me I have. resolvconf and openresolve are awful too but for different reasons

prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 323d

I dislike systemd less than I dislike sysvinit, so it has that going for it.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 324d

i use mint btw

whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 323d (9 replies)

My biggest complaint with systemd....

Service xxx stop/start/restart is so much easier than

Systemctl stop/start/restart xxx

It fucking annoys me

enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 323d (6 replies)

I mean, you could write a shell function or script to just wrap it if it bothered you that much?

whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 323d (5 replies)

I'd rather complain

enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 323d

Understandable, have a nice day

InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d (3 replies)
alias service="systemctl"

Or even

alias s="systemctl"
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 322d (2 replies)

Note the order of the commands. I don't mind typing aystemctl

ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d (1 reply)

service() { systemctl $2 $1 }

whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 322d

I love you all solutioning for something I don't care enough about. I just find it annoying that systemctl reversed the order for some stupid reason.

Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 320d

I neaver bothered me too much, can you not alias stop to sudo sytemctl stop xxx

Like that you can write “stop wpa_supplicant” instead od “Sudo systemctl stop wpa_supplicant. “

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 323d

It seems like every Linux distro I've used both of those will work fine.

AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 323d

I don't know if I like how you're characterizing furries. Not all of us do this, and I don't do it... often.

SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 324d

Username checks out

Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 324d

Systemd is great! The best thing about it is how efficient and minimal it is!

WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 15 pts · 323d

This must be why my post saying Linux made me gay got so many up votes.

davidagain@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 324d

Well, that's one way to "use" systemd, I guess.

Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 14 pts · 324d

I love ubuntu snaps.

(sets phone on vibrate)

ronflex@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 322d (1 reply)

Systemd has simplified my life on a few occasions, and it seems to be reliable from what I can tell. At the end of the day if I can get the OS to do what I want in a relatively simple matter, that's all I care about.

Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 319d

In all seriousness, I've yet to encounter a situation where Systemd made any meaningful negative difference in my Linux experience.

I've never had problems with any init system, Systemd or otherwise.

voldage@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 323d

Good boy.

molten@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 324d

Bzzzzz

Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 324d (5 replies)

I would replace grub in a heartbeat with systemd if it a feature like grub-btrfs (boot time snapshots for btrfs all in the GUI)

spikespaz@programming.dev · 3 pts · 324d (4 replies)

Zfs is better anyway

Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 324d (3 replies)

How is it better? For desktop use specifically

michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 324d (2 replies)
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 323d

better compression (btrfs compression doesn’t work on extents smaller than 128KiB, which excludes the majority of potentially-compressible data on MANY systems)

Well straight away that's wrong.

I also don't get the complaint that if you create a confusing subvolume layout, it results in a confusing subvolume layout. Don't do that then.

Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 323d

Thanks! It looks good, really good. just not worth it for me unless they change the licensing

satanmat@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 324d (1 reply)

SystemD is that like ntoskrnl.exe?

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 324d

delete it for free space! (and freedom!)

...

...i'm not asking. do it.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Please mark as nsfw

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 32 pts · 324d (1 reply)

There's already systemd in the title

mittorn@masturbated.one · 3 pts · 324d

@SkaveRat @possiblylinux127 systemd should be in CW (but do not know if lemmy supports CW)

Illecors@lemmy.cafe · 11 pts · 323d

Used systemd for years; realistically my first init.

Switched to Gentoo.

Switched to OpenRC.

Lost logs at work on a server.

Some small inconveniences show up on systemd.

Yea, systemd is not that great.

There are people saying they don't want to care about an init system, but it's the same attitude as of those who don't care about what car they drive. Yes, it gets the job done, but that's not good enough for me.

I want the job done properly.

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 322d

I don't know what systemd is but this is pretty much how I picture all linux users.

drath@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 323d

Have one extra buzz from me as well. Screw RedHat and everything it does.

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 323d

Well, now I do.

Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 10 pts · 324d

And then the phone exploded.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 323d

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 9 pts · 324d
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midtsveen@lemmy.wtf · 8 pts · 324d
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Auli@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 324d

Yes I like it and it is loads better then what came before it.

zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 324d (2 replies)

I've only ever used systemd, and I'm not really aware of what else is out there, since I think systemd has been the default on all the distros I've tried. Anyone have some good resources on other alternatives and how to start playing around with them?

anyhow2503@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 324d

Most non-systemd users are either contrarians or people who don't want to switch their workflow from some other system that they already know perfectly.

I will always welcome alternative systems on principle alone, but at this point there is not much need for linux "consumers" to consider anything else (unless their distro doesn't ship with systemd of course).

brejela@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 324d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 323d

OwO

juipeltje@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 324d (3 replies)

For my basic needs it always felt more confusing then necessary. Don't have a hate boner for it, but i prefer not to use it at this point. I'm using Void and i really like how simple runit is.

Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 324d (1 reply)

Ehh it's very easy to use. Simpler then init actually but some people hate change.

juipeltje@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 324d

Well i'm not saying it's rocket science, but compared to runit/rc.local or simple autostart scripts i do think it's easier. I converted everything from my autostart script to systemd services when i was still on NixOS, and the whole thing seemed so convoluted. With having to set services to depend on each other, and also had a lot of problems with things like nm-applet or blueman-applet not showing up in the bar at all, and couldn't find a way to fix it.

bulletmark@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 323d

When looking for an alternative to replace Arch ARM on my Raspberry Pi I tried Void but gave up after discovering it does not use systemd.

Dhar@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 324d (3 replies)

I'm still waiting for them to get DNS and user services working. Then it'll finally be usable.

tal@olio.cafe · 4 pts · 324d (2 replies)

DNS

There's systemd-resolved. I don't know if you mean that it has some kind of limitation.

Dhar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 323d (1 reply)

It doesn't work with private DNS servers or forward DNS over VPN. Removing it is always the first thing I have to do with new Linux installs.

tal@olio.cafe · 1 pts · 323d

It doesn’t work with private DNS servers or forward DNS over VPN.

Like, you want to have it query some particular DNS server?

From man 5 resolved.conf:

   DNS=
       A space-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to
       use as system DNS servers. 

       For compatibility reasons, if
       this setting is not specified, the DNS servers listed
       in /etc/resolv.conf are used instead, if that file
       exists and any servers are configured in it.

If you specify your private server there, it should work. For VPN, I mean, whatever VPN software you're using will need to plonk it in there. Maybe yours is not aware of systemd-resolved, is modifying /etc/resolv.conf after systemd-resolved has already started, and it doesn't watch it for updates?

In my /etc/nsswitch.conf, I have:

hosts:          files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns

I'm assuming that the "resolve" entry is for systemd-resolved.

kagis

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2022/03/wireguard-dns-config-for-systemd/

With systemd-resolved, however, instead of using that DNS setting, add the following PostUp command to the [Interface] section of your WireGuard config file:

PostUp = resolvectl dns %i 9.9.9.9#dns.quad9.net 149.112.112.112#dns.quad9.net; resolvectl domain %i ~.

When you start your WireGuard interface up, this command will direct systemd-resolved to use the DNS server at 9.9.9.9 (or at 149.112.112.112, if 9.9.9.9 is not available) to resolve queries for any domain name.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 324d

I do not particularly care for it and most of my systems are still systemd free. Much like pulseaudio in its later days, I've learned to deal with it when I must. Also like pulseaudio, something better will probably come along.

VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 5 pts · 323d

it's fine

they're fine

we're fine

it's fine

twice_hatch@midwest.social · 4 pts · 324d

yesss

Kristof@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 319d

omg scary systemd, with Artix I go

rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 324d

I don't mind the config.

I don't mind most of the features.

I dislike them trying to use timers to get rid of cron

I like it's logging for linux on the desktop if I lose some logs becuas of space that's what i'd do anyway

I don't like it's logging for servers, those logs are necessary and need to be preserved.

journalctl -f is pretty cool

journalctl -fu is pretty cool

Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 323d (1 reply)

This not a kill tony joke?

WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 323d

No, kill Tony just sticks his thumb up his butt for Joe Rogan. Nothing to do with Linux.

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 160d (2 replies)

No.

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Why not? Do you prefer openRC?

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 159d

Yeah. Or runit.

Yet to give dinit or s6 a fair go.