Linux distros without systemd
I get that not everybody likes systemd, but a lot of the criticisms seem misguided and looking at sysvinit with role-colored glasses.<p>For example, people are complaining about logind being included, but forget that consolekit was unmaintained before that. Yes, there&#x27;s parts to systemd that not everyone will use, like container support, but in that case you can pretty safely ignore that use case.<p>For me, systemd has provided a much more consistent way of managing services. There&#x27;s a tightly defined service definition format that allows one to comfortably modify any 3rd party service as well, (unlike random, variable-quality shell scripts), relatively small amount of commands to learn that work consistently across services, mounts, timers etc. There&#x27;s also much better handling of modern hardware, hotplugging &amp; the like.<p>I can&#x27;t say I miss sysvinit. Also, stuff like [1] from the anti-systemd camp doesn&#x27;t inspire confidence.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;786593" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;786593</a>