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# It is actually systemd/Linux!
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Most people who hate systemd can't elaborate on why they hate
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systemd. But I can.
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## Privacy issues
There are a **lot** of conspiracy theories about systemd being spyware.
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[systemd fallback to G\*\*gle DNS
servers.](https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Systemd+Could+Fallback+to+Google+DNS/22516/) This is a very serious privacy issue.
This can be modified in the [`configure.ac` ](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/a083537e5d11bce68639c492eda33a7fe997d142/configure.ac#L1305 ) But i don't think you want to recompile systemd
BTW, why does my ** *INIT*** software manage my DNS? I thought we had. emm.
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* dhcpcd
* NetworkManager
* wicd
* connman
## UNIX philosophy
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>\>Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh
>rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".
According to
[this ](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/05/25/0538206/systemd-now-has-more-than-12-million-lines-of-code )
systemd has 1.2 million lines:
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There's also systemd-boot, systemd-crypt setup and probably much others
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than **we** haven't discovered yet.
Here's a list of what systemd manages:
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* [Gnome ](https://blogs.gnome.org/benzea/2019/10/01/gnome-3-34-is-now-managed-using-systemd/ )
[Extra ](https://github.com/dantrell/gentoo-project-gnome-without-systemd )
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* [Home directories ](https://www.howtogeek.com/673018/systemd-will-change-how-your-linux-home-directory-works/ )
* [Encrypted disks ](https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/systemd/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.8.en.html )
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### X11 in systemd
Of course, [X11 was **completely**
necessary](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n783)
in PID 1
### Ever wanted to connect to a remote systemd machine (using systemd)?
[Now you
can!](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n1500)
### /etc/ bullshit
[If you run
systemd](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n1401)
with an empty /etc directory, `systemctl preset-all` (whatever that
does) is executed. to ensure a good "factory reset"
Really? I think that if someone is going to remove /etc is because a)
per's stupid or b) per's distro was already broken.
Also, why is this in the fucking init process?
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#### `systemctl` edit command
[systemctl has its own editor, which is `$EDITOR` though, pretty useless since you just removed /etc. ](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n689 )
### systemd-rfkill
It was something really necessary! My init system controlling if my
fucking wifi card is on or off! I don't know what i would do without a
process spawned by my kernel doing this...
### Your init software manages your calendar and cron jobs
[Yeah, completely
necessary.](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n1044)
### systemd stores tempfiles in a completely sane directory!
[Literally why?
](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n1049)we
literally have /tmp and /dev/shm, fucking `systemd-tmpfiles` was completely unnecessary
### systemd does not know what FastCGI is
[Thank you systemd ](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1ca11270e66777c90a449096203afebc37ec9c#n166 )
< hr > Being systemd so fucking big, it could crash in any second. And
since systemd is PID 1, if it crashes, the kernel would panic.
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GNU's not UNIX! so why would it have to follow the UNIX philosophy?
Because it is UNIX like!
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## Serious issues
* [You can accidentally remove / ](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644 )
* [L\*nnart thinks we cannot `useradd 0day` ](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237 )
* [The very necessary cryptsetup repleacement don't work ](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6381 )
* [They don't know how to use getopt ](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1596 )
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## Logs
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**systemctl** uses its own format (binary BTW) to logs the shit, and you have to
use **journalctl** (can't use less/more/cat/whatever) to see what's going on.
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At least, there's /var/log. But not all software use that
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## Alternatives to systemd
Good luck!
* runit
* sinit
* SysVinit
* Seppherd
* cinit
* OpenRC
* Anything that is not systemd. for satan's sake
Anyways, good distros without systemd are gentoo, void and
slackware. Consider BSD too!
