&gt; Hotplugging devices was the domain of the kernel and udev (and consolekit for user access). The only reason &quot;systemd&quot; does this now is because they replaced consolekit (yay) and absorbed udev (boo).<p>Yeah hotplugging has obviously been available for ages.<p>&gt; You either love or hate the ambiguity of terms like &quot;systemd&quot;<p>Indeed, in this case I was referring to the whole framework and not PID 1.<p>Personally I&#x27;ve been running systemd on my systems since even before Arch Linux incorporated it officially and I&#x27;ve pretty much never had any problems. I especially haven&#x27;t had any boot related issues with it. I even have multiple luks encrypted disks attached.