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systemd(ont) (www.arscyni.cc)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by arsCynic@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I'm surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.

https://nosystemd.org/.

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[-] KernelTale@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

My system once refused to boot, because I deleted a partition and didn't remove it from fstab. Thankfully it was an easy and fast fix but I would expect it to just boot and give an error.

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

That's why I always put a nofail option for all my drives except the boot drive

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Right, that happened to me too.

And it's a problem 100% unrelated to systemd, so I wouldn't count it here.

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