ah, yes.
remember those four different init systems i mentioned earlier when discussing which flavor of artix you want to install?
systemd is like the evil version of that.
back when gnu/linux was beginning to get captured by large corporations like IBM/Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, etc., Red Hat came up with a truly devious idea. they'd make their own init system, and they'd pack it full of useless "features" nobody asked for and make it incompatible with everything else and gradually absorb more and more functionality.
`init` is supposed to start the operating system's userland. systemd does:
- device management via udev
- session, login, and greeting management via logind
- log and journal management via journald
and much, much more i'm now forgetting. most importantly, it does it all terribly and horribly and in a no-good, very bad way. it is designed to windowsify gnu to the point where they recently floated the idea of having a blue screen of death via systemd-bsod (unlike the usual linux kernel panic which provides much more human-readable and debuggable output).
give me a specific paragraph from this webpage and tell me what confuses you. is it jargon of some sort? i'll be happy to explain, but i'm unprepared to rewrite a fairly long webpage without knowing even what % you actually need rewritten.
hat :9front:
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