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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 TheGratefulNet on Friday November 21 2014, @03:27AM
today, I did an apt-get update of my rasp-pi board (I had pointed to jessie. probably not a good idea) and it borked the bootup process. sits there counting down 1:30 and then hangs. damn! glad I have a backup.
so far, I see no benefit to systemd and only down-sides. this 'upgrade' costed me time and now I have to blow away my sdcard and redo it all from backups.
I'm also going to be avoiding jessie until its known to work (at least on the pi).
I guess I don't see what was wrong with old init. it worked, it was understood and it was lightweight.
linux guys are starting to piss me off. they take functioning stuff and feel like they have to break it. damn.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @03:39AM
You're yet another victim who has had to waste hours dealing with a problem that never would have happened if Debian had done the right thing and shunned systemd.
I don't care how much time this will "save" the Debian package maintainers. It has already wasted so much time of users whose computers have become infected with systemd that the maintainers' time savings will never even begin to approach how much time users have wasted dealing with systemd-induced problems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @03:49PM
I don't care how much time this will "save" the Debian package maintainers. It has already wasted so much time of users whose computers have become infected with systemd that the maintainers' time savings will never even begin to approach how much time users have wasted dealing with systemd-induced problems.
Exactly. It doesn't help that there are 40,000 packages (and less maintainers) but millions of users.