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Is Systemd that bad afterall?
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The problem of systemd is that it hasn't been just a replacement of init as they initially claimed, and now deny they ever did. Things like Mono, Gnome and systemd are bad for the ecosystem long term.
An init done by constructive people wouldn't be a problem at all.
Apart from the PID 1 part of systemd, almost all tools are optional.
Although I have a positive opinion about the systemd project, I used netctl instead of systemd-networkd for a long time without any problems. And even today I don't use systemd-resolved because I use a combination of unbound and Pi-Hole in my private LAN. And so on.
So you can't say that the systemd project has replaced various solutions in such a way that you don't have a choice anymore.
I was more referring to things like e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd
Notice that it's from 2021 and just for Gentoo. This is what people politely describe as invasive.
Honestly, that looks like a fairly short list and half of the tools interact closely with useful functionality that didn't even exist at all before systemd came around.