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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: 1, Troll) by quixote on Friday November 21 2014, @01:32AM
to have an informed opinion on systemd. I'm pretty sure I'm using it (Debian jessie/testing), and did notice that boot times suddenly went down by about 10x when (I think) it was implemented.
Does that mean I'm for it, for some unspecified value of $for? Well, I don't like what I hear about it making the init process more opaque, about it maybe having some kind of roots in Redhat wanting to push us all into clouds, about Poettering of pulseaudio being some kind of central to it. So, yeah, it makes me nervous.
But there's another factor that's actually moving me toward giving it the benefit of the doubt: The devs who do seem to know something about it respond politely to doubters and even try to explain what's going on. And -- the biggest factor -- the anti-systemd-ers who slag off supporters as "social justice warriors," scream like wounded banshees, and even issue death threats.
Enough already. I just wanted to let the screamers know that you've lost one potential vote by what you're doing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @08:06AM
social justice warriors
hipsters
{insert others here}
Whenever you encounter the “label of badness” of the day you can safely stop reading.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @12:22PM
It's a blanket term now. "You'll take it and like it", attitudes.
Ironically similar to the windows 8 interface and the user response.
We all know how that turned out.