I sure hope so... I've had to revert several Ubuntu machines to upstart and I have to "sudo service restart network-manager" 3 of 10 times my primary desktop starts (so I scripted it..)
Based solely on my personal experience (which is mainly Ubuntu desktop and server) Systemd is a hot broken mess. To me it feels like good goals with poor implementation.
I actually miss how simple init used to be... I understand the motivations for improving it, but if I had to choose ease of grokability or better boot times, I'll take grok every time.
Given how many things systemd does and how this set of things is increasing with every version (lately including dhcp and ntp client, for example), it feels to me that the goal is to bring as much things under systemd (and thus Red Hat) as possible.
It's a sad day that the biggest Linux company is doing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but I guess I shouldn't have expected more from RH.
Based solely on my personal experience (which is mainly Ubuntu desktop and server) Systemd is a hot broken mess. To me it feels like good goals with poor implementation.
I actually miss how simple init used to be... I understand the motivations for improving it, but if I had to choose ease of grokability or better boot times, I'll take grok every time.