• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      They are giving options, no one is forced anything. People should complain upstream at init systems and desktopmobile environments.

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        9 months ago

        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

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              9 months ago

              Systemd was created to allow parallel initialization, which other init systems lacked. If you want proof that one processor core is slower than one + n, you don’t need to compare init systems to do that.

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                9 months ago

                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

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                  I mean, sysvinit was just a bunch of root-executed bash scripts. I’m not sure if systemd is really much worse.