[prrls]

Thanks for your reply, will definitely read this mailing list thread.

I remember of this long article, that, technically demonstrates that systemd is badly designed, as you said: http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/

Didn't read it entirely at the time as it dives really fast into the technical stuff and provides an ever growing flow of informations that you have to absorb to understand it correctly. Seeing people like you being so concerned with systemd makes me inclined to re-read it fully.

And why FreeBSD and not voidlinux or something in this fashion ? More secure ? More mature ? Will never be subject to such issues ?

[binaryapparatus]

At the time I finally get fed up with systemd there was less choice than now, I remember only Gentoo being real candidate for switching. Now we have devuan and void and gentoo, they are all very good systems. Since there was only Gentoo and I didn't want to compile stuff the only other real choice was FreeBSD.

I am surprisingly happy with FreeBSD, userland packages are very fresh, which I like being former Arch linux user. Kernel works at least on the level of linux kernel, maybe even better. Zfs is something that I didn't completely understand before I tried it out, even with all the theory I knew. Zfs is just mind blowing.

I very much love linux and it is not impossible to imagine switching back, at least for some of my machines.

It is mostly matter of sanity and nerves, I couldn't follow and understand all the systemd flaws while pretending everything is OK.

[aerique]

I switched to Void Linux which feels BSD'ish while keeping Linux conveniences like Steam, inotify (for things like Dropbox), etc. It comes well recommended.

I've been running this as my main dev machine at work for six months now without too many issues. The biggest problem was installing TeX packages actually :-)