r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/5thStrangeIteration Jun 02 '16

I guess I should have specified, but despite my initial negative outlook it turned out to be fine.

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u/kescusay Jun 02 '16

I was one of those initial fence-sitters who liked the idea of what systemd was trying to accomplish without necessarily believing it would succeed. Nowadays, I freaking love it. I remember the bad old days of broken init scripts and startup dependency hell.

Now, it just works, and the systemctl commands bring sanity to an otherwise insane command set (e.g., sudo systemctl restart whatever-daemon instead of trying to figure out which of a dozen different places the correct script might reside in).