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Re:Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux by doublerabbit on Thursday September 05, 2024 @08:50AM (#41456133)
> There is a reason systemd took over, its massively supported and widely tested.

Partly due to that it's funded and forced upon by corporate. Any product can excel if resources are available.

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Re:Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux by Foxboron on Thursday September 05, 2024 @09:56AM (#41456686)
Nobody forced us, Arch Linux, to adopt systemd.
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Re:Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux by hedora on Thursday September 05, 2024 @08:57PM (#41461833)
That choice did get me to switch off an arch derivative to Devuan.

Also, the purported benefits in this post (which I guess is authoritative for the project?):

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530

Haven’t panned out for me.

8: logind being repeatedly and completely busted (in 2022-2024) got me to try Debian again. 9: Debian taking 10’s of seconds to boot (just like manjaro), when devuan does it faster than a monitor sync got me to switch to devuan.

(And, yes, since logind regularly wedges, I spend lots of time rebooting).

Hotplug worked fine for me way before systemd existed, so that’s not a benefit either.

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