On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 15:23:24 -0600, Ike wrote:

And people have accused me of simply
hating systemd for no reason.


For a personal workstation systemd is a TOTALLY UNNECESSARY and
massive layer of pure junk. Anyone stupid enough to accept it
will reject all counterarguments for its usefulness.

Systemd is RedHat's attempt to foist a universal API, under its
total control and for its own profit, onto the Linux ecosystem.
This fact may not be that surprising, but what is surprising,
if not shocking, is the rapid acquiescence demonstrated by all
major distros to RedHat's wishes.

Distro maintainers are now the slaves and lackeys of RedHat.

Although unlikely, the only salvation for free software will
be the GNU HURD OS under strict control by GNU and the FSF.