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    4 days ago

    My personal reasons for disliking systemd (note: I still use systemd):

    • The lead developer of systemd has said multiple times that we should be fine with break POSIX if it means developing faster.
    • systemd has massive attack surface, making it easier to exploit and result in privilege escalation. It is a highly complex and large codebase that really shouldnt be given the trust of PID 0
    • systemd is not portable or modular.
    • It only just barely got musl support. Hope to see it improve in the future.
    • systemd is much slower than other inits (eg. dinit, s6, openrc)
    • systemd being the go-to init encourages developers to more heavily depend on it, making it difficult for distros without systemd

    The biggest feature I like about systemd is run0, though I wish it was a drop in replacement for sudo. Secondly, I do like that services can be sandboxed.