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[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure everyone has settled by now, Personally I hate systemd. It's slow, relatively resource intensive, poorly designed in many aspects.

but as an init and service manager it's the best. Though I do have to say dinit does get pretty close for me now.

I personally use Arch on my desktop and artix on my laptop. I want Systemd to die just as much as the next Systemd hater, but unfortunately I don't believe we have anything better yet.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It is faster on modern hardware due to heavy optimization

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

can't say I have experienced that. I use a myriad of modern but lower end systems and stuff like dinit still uses less resources and is in turn better for the speed and responsiveness of my systems

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I've run systemd on a system with 32mb of memory and a Pentium II. It was not the bottle neck and it booted right up.