The Best #Linux Distributions Without systemd

https://www.howtogeek.com/713847/the-best-linux-distributions-without-systemd/

@lupyuen As someone who's entrypoint to Linux was Ubuntu (after messing around with things like dsl, puppy, and other stuff); can anyone explain to me why systemd is so dang devisive? Is there genuinely anything technically wrong with it, or is it just another vim vs emacs thing?

@rgegriff @lupyuen
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Systemd can introduce problems, because it tries to integrate a lot of different services that were distinct and customizable in the past. I think to logginng for example: with Systemd you have integrated logging. But if you have a very big server, generating a lot of logs, it is difficult to customize the Systemd default logging system, while before Systemd you had a lot of different options from which choose.

Before Systemd, the service specification was less elegant, but Linux administrators were in full control, because they can swap parts. With Systemd they had to accept the choices of Systemd, and in some usage scenario, when they need to swap parts, it is not configurable/customizable enough.

It is a complete change of philosophy for Unx, because in Unix usually you assume to being in control of the details of the system, when you need this.