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Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I'm surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.
These days OpenRC even has user-services. And writing a simple OpenRC service file is barely more complex than a systemd unit file, maybe even simpler, because it's readable bash, not some declarative DSL.
Obviously there is in no way feature parity between those two, that's the point, personally the one thing I'd like to have is something similar to systemd's timers (which I actually prefer to old-school cron) built into OpenRC, but most other things I can live without.
That's an oxymoron.
Do you know of an easy drop in way to convert a sysV system into an OpenRC one?
sysV init or sysV rc? OpenRC can work with any basic
/sbin/initor provide its own. If you rely on sysV rc scripts there is probably some backwards compatibility, or at least was in older versions, but I don't really see the point in it. What distro does even still use sysV rc?