The state of systemd: 2026 edition

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   He explained that the rate of issues being opened was accelerating, and if it kept up the project would face a large number of unresolved open issues. ""We're currently at 3,000 [open issues]. This is already too much to have a handle on. So I don't know. This is not great"."

Here you can see the crux of the complaints against systemd. it is a giant ball of mud, and working ok in the highway cases but completely fucking up your computer in the other cases.

And you can easily guess that these 3k issues are just the tip of the iceberg.