steady hand and a magnetized needle is all I need. kernel is bloat

in theory systemd is faster because it can do things in parallel

I'm sure this post isn't going to be controversial at all lol

After over a decade using systemd in arch and Debian, I never had any direct issues with it. However, I never truly got my head around it or got comfortable with how it functioned. I recently swapped arch for void which uses runit, and after over a month using it I to an amazed both how clean and simple it is, how everything just works, how easy to interact and use runit is and am blown away by boot and shutdown times. My arch / systemd setup was heavily optimised for boot, and I thought was quick, but runit starts in about 4 seconds and shutdown is about 2 seconds.

Systemd has been putting a lot of effort into eliminating the need for SUID binaries with run0 and polkit integrations, so I'm curious if other init systems are doing anything similar.

Boot speed is meaningless. Having to almost never reboot is everything.

Use what works for you.

Develop what scratches your itch.

Don't tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.

If you want a solution that's non-systemd go for it. If it doesn't exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That's the way of the Bazaar.

I'll be in my unenlightened "things work for me good enough" Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I'm not even sure I can remember any.

Huge thank you's to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!

I've never had systemd break either

Honestly for desktop usage it doesn't really matter. All inits have their idiosyncrasies ("A stop job is running for Session"/logging hell on openrc/etc). But for managing a fleet of bare-metal servers I find systemd to be the best, most polished one out of the lot.

for script in $(find /etc/init/start); do
    exec $script &
done

sleep

Undoubtedly the best init system that exists. No fluff, just starts services.

Systemd is mile ahead of the others, thing is that solves problems that you most likely don’t have or even know that exist. To boot a regular machine or small server pretty much any init system is good.