Alex Moonshine <moonsh...@openmailbox.org> writes: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:49:08 -0500 > Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > >> What has the end-user, with a single machine, gained today from >> the adoption of systemd? > > Speaking for myself: > 1. It took me an hour of googling to write my own working init script. > It takes me 10 minutes to write my own systemd unit. > 2. Boot times improved. > Autostarting programs on login is a lot simpler now, and unified across desktop environments; I'm no longer dependent on the capabilities of the session manager, and I can even autostart programs I need when logging in on the console.
In my case, having a running emacs server is indispensable, so I wrote a systemd user service unit. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.