Why Would You not Use Systemd?

[dalto]

The whole systems vs no systems topic has been debated to death for many years. Here is my opinion from a couple of years ago. It hasn’t changed

What's the deal with Systemd?

Historically, there were many reasons people disliked systemd, which are mostly irrelevant at this point. systemd was a massive departure from how init and logging systems worked at the time. It meant a lot of re-learning for long-time Linux users and some people dislike change. At this point, it is ubiquitous so most people have learned how to use it. People feared that systemd would homogenize Linux since most Linux distros of the time had init differences. In point of fact, this did happ…