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[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]
http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:
First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.
Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Thursday November 20 2014, @09:45PM
Appearantly I am also not part of this 'community'... But even then with 22% vs 47% both are pretty sizeable minorities.
As for myself, I don't really like the ideas behind systemd, but I never understood why people liked sysv either.
I just hope Slackware can hold out with just a few shims and keep a sane init system.
(Score: 1, Troll) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 20 2014, @10:06PM
If you post here, you are of course part of this community. However you may be in the majority here with your opinion while being in the majority elsewhere (for example, I'd expect the favouring votes would be much more pronounced at Red Hat).
Anyway, I'm pretty sure those who don't care either way are vastly underrepresented because many of them wouldn't care enough to participate at the poll.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 20 2014, @10:08PM
Err ... the first "majority" should, of course, have been "minority".
Reminder to self: Don't forget to proofread.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @10:47PM
People don't like sysvinit. But when the alternative is something as fucked up as systemd, sysvinit looks damn good.