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[–] morkyporky@suppo.fi 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I hated it and still do because for a period of years every weird, difficult to find issue on a bunch of servers was caused by systemd. It may be fine now, but I switched to Devuan and have had incredible stability. Poettering's response to security issues was also terrible and honestly the dude seems like a real piece of shit.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

BASED,

Try dinit too. It's probably the easiest to use alternative to systemd

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Systemd on a server is disaster.

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Excuse me but wtf? How many machines do you manage?

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 1 points 28 minutes ago

Right now five servers. Three with Alpine Linux and two FreeBSD servers.

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Only admins with 25+ years of experience may downvote this