PostmarketOS has had really strange priorities lately. I’m not a fan of the whole ethos of Ubuntu mobile (including their use of SystemD) but at least they have stuck to actually getting every feature working on some devices with reasonable specs. My computer uses KDE and OpenRC and has far fewer issues than it did on SystemD. This feels like a waste of resources to reinvent the wheel.
Reinventing the wheel is what they were doing without Systemd.
On their announcement they cite various instances of having to write polyfills and ending up with basically ‘Systemd at home’ but buggier.Reinventing the wheel is what they were doing without Systemd.
Weird. We had those wheels before Lennart’s cancer showed up.
I honestly don’t know why you were downvoted so much. You could have get very different responses in a different forum.
Now, Microsoft employee. And everybody is OK with that. New generations suck.
We had this fight for years, your side lost. Evolve or die.
No, init systems sucked before. It was a bunch of poorly documented and poorly managed shell scripts
Well you’re right but the more postmarketOS grows, the harder it is to switch to another init system
Why would you want to. Systemd is the standard for a reason.
It does have disadvantages. The only real advantage of it is the completeness of system administration tools. Since they aren’t that much needed on a phone and the performance of that class of devices is not groundbreaking, using another init system is a good idea. Though it depends on what the specific user wants of course. As long as there is a way to change the init system, it shouldn’t be a problem
Another init will be slower and will require much more time and resources though.
Don’t believe. Do you have any proof of that?
I’ve never heard of that. I only heard that other init systems usually have better performance. And well even if it’s not the case, security is another massive concern
Systemd is the standard for a reason.
- bad build process
- ignoring best practice
- RedHat forcing it on the planet
- people forgetting that every deliverable of systemd is a lie.
Can you explain in a little more detail?
I don’t have an opinion on the whole systemd debate but are you going to expand on what you’re meaning, or will just keep spewing bs bullet points? Specially n4, wtf do you mean by that?
Lmao
And? :)
They are giving options, no one is forced anything. People should complain upstream at init systems and
desktopmobile environments.
There is no minimum market share threshold to discuss the way the software you use is being developed and PostmarketOS will not reach 4% in the foreseeable future (and it probably never will). Desktop Linux only just reached that threshold after decades of work and systemd arguments have been happening for years regardless. The conditions for mobile Linux are considerably less favorable. If we can’t discuss systemd until 4% is reached, we can’t discuss systemd ever. Which is fair, because the systemd horse has already been beaten to death at this point. But not because it hasn’t reached some arbitrary 4% threshold. That makes no sense.
If we can’t discuss systemd until 4% is reached, we can’t discuss systemd ever. Which is fair, because the systemd horse has already been beaten to death at this point.
Exactly :)
Isn’t Linux without systemd just a hobbyists niche exercise in masturbation though, let’s be real.
