<i>&quot;The long litany of examples includes Ubuntu Unity, Gnome Shell, KDE 4, the &#x2F;usr partition, SELinux, PolicyKit, Systemd, udev and PulseAudio, to name a few.&quot;</i><p>Add to that systemd&#x27;s ambition to take the place of package managers now.[0]<p>Really, I&#x27;ve come to the conclusion that the major Linux distros are no longer Linux distros.  They&#x27;re systemd distros.<p>Anyone who wants to continue to use a traditional Linux distro (or even a traditional unix) is better off looking elsewhere.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0pointer.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0pointer.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...</a>