&gt;Most opponents of systemd are not against consolidation and standardization of linux system administration.<p>That&#x27;s not my experience, in the discussions I&#x27;ve seen and taken part in, most (as in vast majority) of the detractors are opposed to systemd as a consolidation of a large array of core tools and services all under the same &#x27;umbrella&#x27;, which is exactly what the BSD&#x27;s do at an even higher level as they are developed as full operating systems.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what &#x27;happiness to introduce bugs and unbootable systems&#x27; refer to, I&#x27;ve been using systemd ever since Arch made the switch (~4 years ago). I&#x27;ve yet to have stability issues and I haven&#x27;t read of any widespread problems in the Arch forums either.<p>There are (and likely always will be) distros which default to and promote alternatives (Gentoo comes directly to mind), but in the grand scope we&#x27;re seeing a huge convergence around systemd across distros, which tells me this type of standardisation is something the Linux ecosystem really pined for overall.