&gt; How practical is it<p>Very? Contrary to the popular meme that suggests that systemd is required for features like automounting hotplugged hardware or roaming network configurations were possible a decade before systemd. Several pre-systemd distros even handled a lot of the work for you automagically, though the UI for some tools wasn&#x27;t the best (or, rarely, was missing).<p>&gt; I&#x27;m very used to GNOME<p>That&#x27;s another matter, unfortunately. GNOME is firmly in the systemd-only, &quot;screw portability&quot;&#x2F;&quot;it&#x27;s not a regression when we removing working code because it&#x27;s &#x27;old&#x27;&quot; camp.<p>That said, Gentoo <i>has</i> implemented a workaround[1]. I haven&#x27;t tried it (I still use enlightenment DR16), so I don&#x27;t know if the workaround involves any loss of features, but that might be worth investigating. The install process appears to be a typical level of work for Gentoo.<p>edit: oops - forgot the URL<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.gentoo.org&#x2F;viewtopic-t-1022050.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.gentoo.org&#x2F;viewtopic-t-1022050.html</a>