[coredog64]

> systemd is incredibly useful and powerful.

In that one sentence I think you've highlighted what garners hate from the haters. It's powerful, and it's great when that power is used for good. Those times when it's not is where people get agitated.

[qbasic_forever]

Do you have an example of when systemd is not used for good?

[houzi]

It's quite annoying to not be able to use common tools for DNS queries like `dig`, when using `systemd-resolved` for DNS. I think you might have to sometimes flush the caching feature of `systemd-resolved` as well.

It's fine, I guess. But it did take a while to learn the new ways.

I think this is the main complaint from users with decades of experience. Their scripts and old knowledge stops working.

[egberts1]

it kills production daemons having long running stateful data whenever the netdev goes offline., systemd-networkd, that is.

[viraptor]

Only if you configure it to do that. You can use Wants= and After= for your service to start it after the network, but not restart otherwise.

The behaviour you describe is not unreasonable to want: If your network device goes away, what exactly are you binding the socket to? How are you restoring the listening when it comes back up? But it's up to you to say which one you want.

[egberts1]

Its never a good systemd-networkd default to be killing daemon whenever a netdev goes “cricket”.

[viraptor]

It's not a networkd default. Networkd doesn't kill or even care about other services. The setting exists on the service's unit side. You have to explicitly specify how you want to depend on networking.

[egberts1]

Try it. Pull the Ethernet cable.