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    [–] [email protected] 141 points 5 days ago (1 children)
    [–] semperverus 4 points 4 days ago

    Average journalctl avoider

    [–] Iheartcheese 78 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Oh hey a Linux furry. Never seen that on Lemmy before

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    Xenia is about as old as Tux, and was proposed as a Linux mascot back in the 90's

    She's actually been parr of quite a few memes on here, so, now you're in it too :)

    [–] mrvictory1 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    I read the title and thought it referred to Xenia the Xbox 360 emulator which recently gained Linux support, that didn't make sense.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

    And I thought it was Xena the Warrior Princess and was hella confused

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    A transfem Linux furry. Completely unheard of on Lemmy.

    [–] Iheartcheese 1 points 3 days ago
    [–] iopq 46 points 5 days ago (12 children)

    I still don't know what people use to create services other than systemd

    If you're writing bash scripts you're basically replicating a lot of the functionality of systemd but with larger foot guns

    [–] 9point6 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    The system V init approach did the job fine for a couple of decadesβ€”even if the actual service definitions were a glorified shell switch statement as you insinuate.

    Canonical did their upstart thing for a couple of years that wasn't too bad to use, personally I'm glad they ended up switching to systemd though.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Abaci and mechanical differentiators did the job just fine for a couple centuries.

    [–] finkrat 1 points 3 days ago

    Just go back to rocks on a scale we'll be fine

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    s6, dinit, openrc, BSD rc, are all alternative init systems with their own method of doing thing

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

    Guix_SD has its own init system, Gnu shepherd

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    All of them are worse in my experience. In a embedded context I use busybox init and if I need something more I used systemd. Systemd actually has a fairly small footprint. A few years ago I ran it on a system with 32mb of ram.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

    In my experience s6 was considerably faster and less verbose and didn't have systemd's garbage design, but it was considerably more difficult to understand and use

    dinit is apparently easy to use, but I haven't used it

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

    We can use dinit, s6, runit, and openrc.

    There are more, but these are all top contenders.

    I switched to dinit recently, it uses declarative service management (like systemd unit files). Very clean, fast, lightweight, and portable.

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

    I don't get all the hate for systemd. Chop Suey is an absolute banger.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    "Systemd controversy"

    I think the controversy ended 10 years ago. It is crazy this is still something people will bring up from time to time.

    [–] FauxLiving 1 points 4 days ago

    Unlike Extended Memory.

    I still say you EM users are playing with fire.

    [–] udon 10 points 4 days ago

    Ah, thanks for the reminder! As a happy systemd user I sometimes forget how stubbornly resentful some people in the Linux community are that they still try to keep this up as a topic. Then again, maybe this is just a troll?

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

    ngl I quite enjoy using systemd

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I hace a Xenia sticker on a machine that enthusiastically runs SysD.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Well you shouldn't. Take it off immediately, systemd or the sticker, either will do. She's stated her position on the matter, and you should respect that!

    (/jk I'm not actually having a go at you, stickers are cool, and systemd is pervasive)

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    Was gonna ask what's wrong with Systemd but decided to look it up and I now see why, at least from what I was reading.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    I mean, if you want an init (e.g. embedded linux), sysd may not be way you want. On desktops, tho, you ultimately end up hacking together more or less the same functionality with sticks'n'shit. And yes, sysd timers are more readable than crontab, sue me.

    Edit: the point is, sysd is not (only) an init.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

    It's fine, people will whine about anything.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
    [–] TootSweet 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Yeah, more like "cringe deez nuts."

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

    furry

    hates systemd

    thinks anyone still uses PulseAudio

    Three wrong opinions in such a short post, impressive.

    [–] finkrat 6 points 3 days ago

    calling furries wrong opinions in a Linux community

    That's a bold move Cotton let's see if it pays off

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

    I am typing this from a device which uses PulseAudio (FuriLabs FLX1 phone). I wish it used pipewire instead, but for now I don't really have a choice. Pipewire doesn't work yet with everything on this phone, so everyone with this phone is using PulseAudio (unless they don't want working audio).

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

    Systemd is great

    I love Podman Quadlets

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