I don&#x27;t know of many people who actually <i>liked</i> sysvinit. It&#x27;s mostly apathy due to its low surface (though actually sysvinit is still monolithic and overly coupled compared to members of the daemontools family like runit or s6).<p>It&#x27;s a red herring, anyway. People have been replacing classic BSD and SysV initialization schemes since 1992 [1], but systemd was the first to penetrate the scene quite massively for a plethora of reasons that no one can seem to agree on.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.darknedgy.net&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;0&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.darknedgy.net&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;0&#x2F;</a>