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27 Aug 2025 23:31:21 Barry Fishman <barry at ecubist.org>:

> SSDs made boot times not an issue, the long boot times
> people were discussing would not have been brought up.  I think this was
> way before SSDs were cheap enough for most Arch users to consider.

No one had long boot times or were discussing them until Freedesktop posted systemd booted faster and the likes of Tom Gunderson forcefully switched Arch init to systemd saying anyone who wants to stick with scripts can maintain them as he won't any more. He said systemd was amasingly faster but actually it was just his new laptop had an SSD. This idea spread and keot being mentioned but it turns out now that other init are faster. Soon after he became part of the systemd team and I stopped using Arch. Arch kept being broken anyway if you updated your system immediately like I always do (before they fixed their fixes/patches).