• DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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    Been using Linux as my main system for about 8 years now. I know nothing but systemd. I have never tried other init systems, so I genuinely don’t know what I’m missing out on (if there is any). I don’t mind systemd and I really really like services and timers. I use them all the time to automate things, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hate some things about systemd. One of the things that I’d love to burn to charcoal is that “a stop job for UID 1000… 1:45 minutes”, bitch? I don’t have that much time on my hands, reboot right now. What are the things that other init systems have that make them better than systemd?

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      a stop job for UID 1000… 1:45 minutes

      oh oh and then it changes to 3 minutes something when 1:45 passes! where was that configured mr poettering??

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        You really shouldn’t do that. SysRq reboot is like SIGKILL on steroids. If the OS hasn’t flushed and closed every file handle, you can corrupt the shit out of the system. Ask me how I know.

        You can skip waiting for services to stop by pressing Ctrl+C eight times within two seconds. If you really need to reboot using SysRq, then at least do a sync (Alt+SysRq+S) before that.