Re: [LUG] Systemd

[comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx>]

On 21/05/2020 13:26, Neil wrote:
> I have been looking at reviews and comments about systemd on the 
> internet, and it seems to get some people rather hot under the collar.

Congratulations everyone - that was the single sanest conversation about 
systemd that has ever happened on the internet, or probably ever will.

Hopefully I'm not about to ruin it but the advice has been spot on: as 
an end user, it's vanishingly unlikely you will ever care or need to 
know something like "which init system am I using?". Trust your distro 
maintainers, they usually know what they're doing. Usually.

If you're more advanced and occasionally like to muck around with 
internet tutorials and copying/pasting stuff into terminals to see what 
happens, you probably should know what an init system is at least, and 
which one you're running.

"Power users" and pros have no excuses for not knowing this stuff inside 
out but should probably keep their unwanted opinions to themselves, me 
included.

I would cautiously suggest that Simon's advice is extremely good advice 
and to build on it, systemd is certainly the most prevalent and 
increasingly standardised init system most people will encounter on 
Linux systems. It is the newest and "best" after all, and in IT of all 
things change is constant.

So change with the times and learn new things as they emerge, it's fun 
anyway right? And nobody says you have to immediately forget all your 
decades of init script experience and burn all your sysv boxes to the 
ground the first time you use a systemd computer anyway.

I've known and loved/hated many an init system in my time and so far 
systemd is the, hmm, "least bad" of them so far. Give it another five 
years and we'll probably have two new ones come along.

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