Yeah, I was having a whinge about it here the other day. Just a sec while I dig up the corpse…

Systemd* removes choice*, and it was designed to do so. That is why there is so much anger. It is bad software design, by design. It flies in the face of the core linux principles, all in the name of homogenising the linux ecosystem, and you know exactly which big corporations benefit from that.

The simple fact is: today, if I want to run a mainstream distro without Systemd, I cannot. Its cancerous tentacles run so deep that decoupling it from a mainstream distro, and keeping it decoupled, is a full time job.

Instead I have no choice but to run a smaller, less featured, less secure and less funded alternative. Good luck getting Gnome to work without systemd.

Full credit to Devuan, MxLinux, Artix, and the other united underdogs.

Fuck you Redhat/IBM and your proxy evil-doer Lennart.

But if you want to read more about how why others hate systemd, there’s no shortage of material:

https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page.html

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21616608

http://www.galexander.org/systemd_sucks.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18873851