SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time.

I’m old enough to remember plymouth.service (graphical image) being the most slowest service on boot in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. But I don’t see that as an issue anymore. I don’t have a graphical systemD boot on my Arch but I installed Fedora Sericea and it actually boots faster than my Arch despite the plymouth (or whatever they call it nowadays).

My 2 questions:

  1. Is the current SystemD rant derived from years ago (while they’ve improved a lot)?
  2. Should Linux community rant about bigger problems such as Wayland related things not ready for current needs of normies?
  • MaxHardwood
    20·
    2 years ago

    In BASH ALT+T will swap the last white spaced separated strings… It’s still annoying but makes “systemctl problem_server start/status/restart” a bit easier. CTRL+W will clear the current string to whitespace, so up arrow, ALT+T, CTRL+W, status, ALT+T, Enter.

      • Gabriel Pettier@mas.to
        1·
        2 years ago

        @elithebearded @MaxHardwood same on left-alt and right-alt? (alt-gr if you have an iso keyboard?). It should be left-alt.

        you can use bind -p to print the available functions and the key sequences bound to them. (though sadly the control/alt keys are expressed in a way that can be confusing to newcomers, \e would be alt, and \c control)

        edit: and by newcomers, i include myself, for only having been using linux for 18 years.

    • M. Forester@rollenspiel.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      @MaxHardwood cool. Thanks. 🙂
      I just noticed that it won’t work if you have a dot ‘.’ in there, e.g. ‘rsyslog.service’. It will then switch rsyslog and service around. Sadly Bash always wants to autocomplete including the *.service part. 😩
      But I’m sure I’ll find other applications for this.