it's funny that many people mention boot time as a metric when for most servers, VMs and laptops the devices are either always on or sleeping. startup times do nothing in those cases.
personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn't give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copying my 500mb rootfs into a tmpfs
systemd for me is solidly "at work" software, and not stuff I'm a big fan of either (journald, networkd and the silly dns resolver all have serious issues). so please, keep away from my alpine or I'll have to fork -again- :)
personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn't give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copying my 500mb rootfs into a tmpfs
systemd for me is solidly "at work" software, and not stuff I'm a big fan of either (journald, networkd and the silly dns resolver all have serious issues). so please, keep away from my alpine or I'll have to fork -again- :)