I used to be on the fence.  I knew I hated journald with a passion.  But for systemd, the last straw was trying to mount a USB drive one day.  I would do &quot;mount&quot;, and nothing was mounted.  I looked through the logs and noticed it was being unmounted on mount.  What the fuck, right?  Turns out, a prior unmount of a USB stick killed some service that systemd runs.  So systemd thinks the service is dead, which means it should not be mounted, which means it <i>keeps</i> umounting the damn thing.  Totally braindead.<p>That&#x27;s also when I learned systemd was running an entire virtual fstab layer.  Because, you know, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;fstab just isn&#x27;t good enough anymore.