If you don&#x27;t know what systemd is, than why would you even care or know enough to vote on it. Distrowatch users, who really know and love Linux, are arguably more competent to make a determination than &quot;regular&quot; users.<p>My guess is that number is higher than only 56%, but most people feel powerless vs distro team members who were probably just trying to choose the least of two evils in an uncontroversial way; a referendum might have been a reasonable way to move forward.<p>The irony is that there are many good alternatives to systemd, but no one system does everything that systemd does.. by design. Systemd has a philosophy that has more in common with Windows than <i>the UNIX way</i>.