As someone out of the loop with any of this (I've always just been content with using Debian as-is, and I haven't done much work with systemd), can someone explain why systemd is as bad as it seems to be? As in, why is it so bad that an entire major Linux distro was forked and created with the seemingly sole purpose of removing this program?
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Changing old init scripts to systemd scripts is un-asked for work for many. And it is made by a polarising figure, which leads to emotional refusal.