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The state of systemd: 2026 edition

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   He explained that the rate of issues being opened was accelerating, and if it kept up the project would face a large number of unresolved open issues. ""We're currently at 3,000 [open issues]. This is already too much to have a handle on. So I don't know. This is not great"."

Here you can see the crux of the complaints against systemd. it is a giant ball of mud, and working ok in the highway cases but completely fucking up your computer in the other cases.

And you can easily guess that these 3k issues are just the tip of the iceberg.

3000 really isn't that much if you think about how much it is used and how relatively extensive it is. Though the 3000 is also not just bugs but also feature requests (only ~800 are marked as bugs and 1.5k are marked as feature requests).

As comparison libarchive is sitting at ~300 open issues and LLVM is sitting at ~30k. Both also being really important in their own ways.

> only ~800 are marked as bugs

For an init system ? Brrr

No, for a system and service management layer.

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