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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 Lagg on Friday November 21 2014, @01:42AM
The maintainers are indeed adding complexity where it doesn't need to be but they're also removing a lot of it with the other daemons. For example networkd and timedated is much less of a pain in the ass both usage and code wise than dhcpcd and ntpd. Seriously, check out the code and compare. Despite the maintainers being asshats about good practice sometimes the simplicity difference is quite refreshing. I think if these were not under the systemd project umbrella and were their own thing people would be loving it.
But yeah I am getting very sick of always seeing "hai we added this big batch of features and will do cleanups later" but I think that can be helped by people stopping acting like braindamaged children and actually trying to communicate productively with maintainers /or send patches. I've also advocated booting the current maintainers. Even though I don't blame them for giving up trying to listen to people given the stupidity observed even at places like soylent I do blame them for being entitled pissants. Even though I have my own issues with Lennart the other maintainers I downright loathe. Particularly the one who had the gigantic brass balls to tell Linus that the kernel command line "belonged to them".
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