In reference to: https://lemmy.world/post/23862757

I use Void btw

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Most people rejected his message.

“Systemd is Satan’s creation! Pure Evil!”

They hated Talking Pig because He told them the truth.

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    I still can’t wrap my head around why SystemD has become the defacto standard & why aren’t devs trying out OTHER init-systems

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      1. It was doing new things.
      2. It was easier to learn.
      3. The other init systems were (are) stagnant.

      Imagine trying to get new, young developers to adopt C or Pascal when the likes of Rust and Python exist. You can make arguments for a thing’s superiority based on moral standards (which are always subjective), but morality is a poor metric. If everything was done based on that, the Linux ecosystem would be in the same state as the GNU Hurd kernel.

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      It’s pretty good at starting services. It just keeps adding bundled things people wouldn’t use otherwise, in a fairly microsoft fashion

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      The choice of init system is up to the distro maintainers because init scripts are usually created and maintained by the packager of a given application. Debian for example chose its init system via a democratic vote. Distros that focus on different init systems exist, like the Debian fork Devuan.