Based on some recent news, and an interaction I had.

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re in any case , i am a happy systemd user on my servers . what im trying to say is that the push towards alternatives is there , and is something many people advocate for, and work actively towards . binding yourself to outdated technology is a bad idea imo..

[pj@donotsta.re]

> don't cite me on it though

ok so you're talking out of your ass then?

@nelson @fiore

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @julia@eepy.moe @nelson@wetdry.world this is kinda like what if chromium decided to only work on windows . not rlly but . kinda

[pj@donotsta.re]

Ok, so I'm like with you until "outdated technology" because where in the hell is systemd an "outdated technology" (as a project and its author that always has been striving to provide best Linux Desktop experience)?

@fiore

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re outdated since alternatives have been consistently been able to provide better performance with simpler and more portable systems.

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re thats when something becomes "outdated" in software

[pj@donotsta.re]

Also to be clear, I'm all for having diversity in software stack and be as compatible and interoperable as possible, but I'm also just a dev that cannot support everything always forever and having less scope and more predictable platforms is extremely better for me

(I'm also an Alpine/pmOS/Chimera user that has been on musl and non-sd init/rc for years)

@fiore

[kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work]

@fiore @julia @nelson eh, more like wine only deciding to support wsl

[nelson@wetdry.world]

@pj @fiore I take the L for this tbh lol

[yukijoou@fedi.kemonomimi.gay]

@pj@donotsta.re @fiore@brain.worm.pink @julia@eepy.moe @nelson@wetdry.world as a user, i do feel like the project has ballooned a bit too much, taking on features that feel like they don't need to be tied to an init system and/or service manager (such as systemd-ukify)-- this means these features depend on libsystemd when they could work independently of systemd, which makes me feel a bit too "locked in" to the project (bus factor and all that)
that, while still having long standing issues (extremely vague log messages such as "A stop job is running …", like, could you tell me at least what is holding up shutdown..?) has made me loose some faith in the project

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re init and daemon supervision is not and never has been something an application developer should worry about

[pj@donotsta.re]

But all those alternatives are worse in terms of providing functional features (as in they lack them). Like I've been there, done that (openrc/dinit) and there's only one project that can somewhat compete with current status quo.

@fiore

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @julia@eepy.moe @nelson@wetdry.world oh yea thats good

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re uh ok . could you be more specific in which features you are talking about ?

[pj@donotsta.re]

No, I'm talking as a developer relating to other developer when e.g. Flatpak devs say they want to use X that is used by majority of users because it makes their job easier and more rigid.

@fiore

[nube@verse.averagedood.xyz]

@nelson@wetdry.world Nice draw ​​

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re as i said , i have not looked into the specifics of how flatpak would even need this. so i cannot say anything about it

[nelson@wetdry.world]

@nube thnkx

[pj@donotsta.re]

@fiore logind, tmpfiles, sysusers, user services (which are quite a recent thing still in openrc), socket activation, more...

[pj@donotsta.re]

And because of that I hate this whole discourse because people don't really look into the specifics and just pile on because of buzzwords like "systemd"

@fiore