A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console

This looks cool, I like this... but if I read the screenshot correctly, it took them 12 seconds from initrd to fully loaded. Maybe this would make sense there, but my laptop boots so fast, those 12 seconds are like two seconds. It would take longer to render the screen than it would just spraying its usual text to the VT.

(Honestly, it spends more time in uefi preboot than it does to actually boot the system.)

I usually don't like TUI's and just want outputs into emacs text buffers, but this interface is beautiful, A nice thing to glance at that tells you everything you need to know about your systemd units. Well done.

`systemctl status` gives you a tree already, just not live view

Like it :)

What i don't get is why booting still takes seconds. When power is on, the hardware is on.

You can initalize most hardware in parallel, reading the amount of operation system into ram is fast.

love it! finally an improvement after 30 years.

but also no reason to not render the tree with proper graphics, TUI is an UI just like GUI is and living dags are particularly well suited to be animated.

Heh, I’m so old that I remember when systemd promised that the new init system would be easier to understand than those "vague startup scripts."

Meanwhile, on systems where I don’t use systemd, the entire initialization process can be displayed in about 30 lines on the screen - and I don’t have to wade through a chaotic web of dependencies, some of which are even auto-generated. As far as I can tell, I currently have about 350 of them active.

Boot times were supposed to be fast, too - yet, curiously enough, systemd often ends up saying, "waiting 1m30s for..."

This is very cool. It should be the new default on all distros.

It may terrify windows and osx refugees, but that's a sacrifice I am happy to make ;)

This is outstanding user interface design. Whoever came up with this is a real talent.

I would love to understand the process of coming up with the UX design is, what the principles are, and where the understanding of what "good" looks like, comes from.

Love it. Now I need to figure out if I can do a similar thing with OpenRC. Thanks for the inspiration.

I hate systemd with a burning passion, but this is the first time I ever thought it might be slightly redeemed.