If you&#x27;re <i>genuinely</i> interested in some discussion pertaining to the answer to that question, use your favorite search engine to search HN for likely phrases and skim until you find some discussion with a significant volume of commentary.<p>Because of its political nature, this is a topic that&#x27;s best not discussed unless you have some <i>very</i> specific questions or observations, and you are already <i>very</i> well informed about the merits <i>and</i> faults of both the systemd project and <i>most</i> of the other pieces of software that provide similar functionality. :)