I'm a windows user since 3.1 and don't know much about linux except the few trials and my pihole.
What's the impact of having systemd (or not) for the everyday layman like me that just uses Visual Studio Code to build flutter apps ?
What's the impact of having systemd (or not) for the everyday layman like me that just uses Visual Studio Code to build flutter apps ?
A lot of people are mad about it for a lot of reasons, but if you're not a system administrator, it's probably better to stick with systemd, since it's what most of the linux community has standardized on, and thus it's much easier to find information online about using those systems.
And even, probably, if you are.
When you add in things like Podman and it's use of systemd it's overall not a bad thing at all.
Compared to initrd, after Debian upgrading to systemd, the system boots slightly faster and shuts down slightly slower (or same speed, depends really what you run)
By "unencumbered by systemd" they mostly mean "works worse". We've removed tens of thousands lines of fixes for "easy", "simple" sysv scripts when we upgraded our servers to version that runs systemd.
Basically, don't worry about it.
It's an idealogical flamewar, that in most cases is without impact.
The binary format of the log file still seems to me to be a bad idea - it introduces corruptibility and complexity to a vital service that should be simple and uncorruptible.
If a failing system starts to do weird things, plain text append only logging is preferable.
Nothing. I run Void Linux Musl with XFCE and I have no issue running Steam and other big glibc programs in Flatpak, docker, etc.