> What's the impact of having systemd (or not) for the everyday layman like me that just uses Visual Studio Code to build flutter apps ?
Compared to initrd, after Debian upgrading to systemd, the system boots slightly faster and shuts down slightly slower (or same speed, depends really what you run)
By "unencumbered by systemd" they mostly mean "works worse". We've removed tens of thousands lines of fixes for "easy", "simple" sysv scripts when we upgraded our servers to version that runs systemd.
Compared to initrd, after Debian upgrading to systemd, the system boots slightly faster and shuts down slightly slower (or same speed, depends really what you run)
By "unencumbered by systemd" they mostly mean "works worse". We've removed tens of thousands lines of fixes for "easy", "simple" sysv scripts when we upgraded our servers to version that runs systemd.