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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 LoRdTAW on Friday November 21 2014, @07:38PM
I never said systemd WILL improve the desktop. My point was a majority of the responders to this so-called poll appeared to be desktop users. And supposedly systemd will make desktops better. How? I dont know. And I don't know because systemd doesn't appear to fix anything. It only breaks POSIX which is what Unix is and what Poettering apparently knows nothing about.
And I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I bet there are plenty of clueless Linux desktop users out there. The other day I was reading about speeding up the boot time of the raspberry pi. Everyone kept spouting the same nonsense: "Use Arch instead of Debian cus it has systemd which makes it boot faster!". Then you had me too posts about how systemd made their pi boot twice as fast. Meanwhile they completely ignored the whole bit about how both distros are completely different and have different init loads to handle. I mean seriously, there are some dumb people out there.
And those are the kinds of people who will vote in favor of systemd, people who think they know shit but don't know shit.