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The good people over at Infoworld have published a story outlining why they feel systemd is a disaster.
Excerpt from Infoworld:
While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there. systemd is becoming the Svchost of Linux—which I don't think most Linux folks want. You see, systemd is growing, like wildfire, well outside the bounds of enhancing the Linux boot experience. systemd wants to control most, if not all, of the fundamental functional aspects of a Linux system—from authentication to mounting shares to network configuration to syslog to cron. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures what's happening behind the scenes.
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systemd: Harbinger of the Linux Apocalypse.
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:33PM
Apparently to be popular we need something like Systemd?
If you want any traction with this OS the answer to that is yes.
MS used to have the *exact same problem*. I remember well autoexec/config.sys/win.ini hell. All of the 'old' ways are still there (see autoruns). But MS makes it pretty clear what the 'right way' is. It makes it extremely easy to program to as the API is known and well documented. Honestly, at this point (having used linux since it fit on a couple of floppies) it is embarrassing. The big distros are just starting to 'hey maybe we should look similar for things like steam'. My synology uses one way to init something my android another my tv yet another and my desktop another and my servers yet another way. I can not program to that and have a well tested product. Which is sad as linux/bsd have a very rich programming environment. But it takes lots of tinkering to get to the point where things run on all systems. Time I could be better spending adding something cooler to my product.
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:09PM
Nope, still don't get it.
What are you setting up? Most modern end-user oriented distros autodetect everything! It just works!
Or, if it doesn't it almost always means you have unsuported hardware. Systemd can't fix that!
What is Systemd replacing that a 'normal' computer user would EVER have touched or even seen?
If you are spending hours configuring openrc or some other startup scripts you must be doing something that this new target audience will not be interested in anyway!