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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 85 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (27 children)

    Person: Systemd bad

    Me: why

    Them: IDK

    [–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 8 months ago (19 children)

    The argument is basically that it does too much and as the motto of Unix was basically "make it do 1 thing and that very well", systemd goes against that idea.

    You might think it is silly because what is the issue with it doing many things. Arguably, it harms customization and adaptability, as you can't run only 2/3 of systemd with 1/3 being replaced with that super specific optimisation for your specific use case. Additional, again arguably, it apparently makes it harder to make it secure as it has a bigger attack surface.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    You can in fact run 2/3 Systemd whatever that means. Systemd components are modular so you can run the base system by itself if you want to.

    Additionally systemd just works. You really don't need to care about the details as running something like a web server or service is as simple as starting it. Dependencies are handled automatically.

    [–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

    Just In case, I wasn't clear, I am just relaying the argument as I understood it

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