I am a Gentoo user, and I use systemd. I also feel like I am at an AA meeting or something every time I state this fact.<p>I have heard all the arguments against systemd and many are totally valid. Some of the implementations and management of the project leaves a lot to be desired.<p>That said, I have run Gentoo on my home desktop for over a decade, Arch on personal&#x2F;work laptops, Debian on some personal development shell boxes, and CoreOS&#x2F;Debian on the hundreds of servers I maintain between work&#x2F;volunteer projects. I may touch all of these in a given day, and I can&#x27;t tell you how great it is for my personal sanity to be able to run &#x27;systemctl restart ...&#x27; or &#x27;journalctl -fu someservice&#x27; on any of them. Having a common set of core system tools available across desktop&#x2F;server distributions has huge advantages.<p>Also there are some real advantages of systemd design (bloated or not) a lot of people overlook. For one, I help maintain shell services for the general public. Giving users root is of course not sane, but at the same time users are constantly wanting to run their own databases, webservers, etc. Since migrating to systemd we can just tell them &quot;create a unit file in ~&#x2F;.config&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;units with whatever you want, and it will become a system daemon run as your user&quot;. This is a huge win for security, administration ease, and usability.<p>I have also used Gentoo to build base images for embedded systems with minimal resources, and systemd would of been a terrible choice for those use cases. It would of been a terrible choice for ChromeOS.<p>Choice is what Gentoo has always been about. Let&#x27;s quit the zealotry and ensure Gentoo continues to be the Linux OS that offers the maximum choices to include the right tools for the problem you are solving.<p>I fully support the author here.