What are some significant differences to expect when switching to an alternative, and can that affect gaming compatibility and performance?
What are some significant differences to expect when switching to an alternative, and can that affect gaming compatibility and performance?
i actually like systemd. i’m not sure why I wouldn’t want to use it.
my one critique is pretty subjective, but i find it difficult to find simple clear documentation online about how certain syntax works and how certain tasks are accomplished.
Recently i was trying to set up a cron-job type automation to run a script every minute. I know how to do that in cron (and if i didn’t, there are tons of good resources online) but i had a hell of a time figuring it out for systemd. I also wanted to have the script run at boot or user login and i couldn’t figure that one out (but i know how to do it with cron)
i’m not a power user so it’s entirely likely the information was hidden in plain sight and i completely missed it
Were you looking at
man systemd.timer? Pretty much everything you need is on there and it is not too complicated.Thank you lol i will look into this next chance i get. I only remember looking at man systemd
Age verification? How about their attempt, after taking over udev development, to drop support for other init systems to force people to use systemd? It’s track record of security flaws?
Do you have a source on the udev thing? I have not heard of this.
Filesystem enable age verification in pretty much the same way as systemd does: You can optionally store a user’s birthday. That is such a ridiculous statement.
To be fair: None of the other inits cared for udev. None contributed or helped by providing features they wanted to improve udev. The systemd devs care for the lower level plumbing overall… and not just for the init system. So it is very natural for low level plumbing projects to land under the systemd umbrella today.
Systemds track record wrt. security flaws is actually pretty good. Not many went through the cracks,maven though some were indeed pretty ghastly. Hardly any was in the core functionality, most were in new code not widely used yet.
On the other hand, the service hardening that systemd enables has improved the overall security of a typical Linux system by quite a lot.