As a counter point, I personally enjoy using systemd to manage my home servers and PC. And I have written unit files for quite a lot too, and enjoy it.
Surprisingly, it seems as if different people have different tastes/opinions. :)
Surprisingly, it seems as if different people have different tastes/opinions. :)
What's also kind of funny to me is, it wasn't designed for cloud-based services. We now have to invent whole new systems that look a lot like systemd just to manage distributed decentralized services that run on Linux systems.
Systemd would have been great for everybody if it had been developed by people with different priorities.
WTF? Are you talking about Android? The user does not even interact with the init system on Android at all, what are you even talking about?
It's not "systemd propaganda" that has been effective, it's the anti-systemd propaganda that seems to get dumber every time I see it.
Honestly, none of this crap matters at all. You can get by just fine with init scripts, and you can get by just fine with systemd services. Except for a few people in the world who have applications that are really sensitive to either fast boot times or really complex system dependencies, any init system will work.
I write service files pretty regularly. If you're a sysadmin, developer or an enthusiast on Linux. you definitely interact with the init system.
If you're a regular Android app developer however, you normally don't do that.