Re:Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
by dijit on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:56PM
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Interestingly; Pulseaudio was a shit show until the distro maintainers got a good hold of it, now it mostly just works without much fiddling (or, any, in basic cases).
SystemD is much the same way, I'm coloured by my impressions from Fedora21-22, where it.. didn't work great.
The issue is with poetterware, it's _incredibly_ difficult to discover /why/ it's not working properly, which is dangerous for an init system (or, an "everything between your application and kernel"-system), a failure rate of 0.0001% is still an unfathomably enormous number of systems; and due to how it works it lends itself to an incredible host of threading issues.
SystemD is much the same way, I'm coloured by my impressions from Fedora21-22, where it.. didn't work great.
The issue is with poetterware, it's _incredibly_ difficult to discover /why/ it's not working properly, which is dangerous for an init system (or, an "everything between your application and kernel"-system), a failure rate of 0.0001% is still an unfathomably enormous number of systems; and due to how it works it lends itself to an incredible host of threading issues.