I know the distro I use Arch, seemed to spend the time to weight the technical/practical costs/benefits and didn't just "fall in line". https://bbs.archlinux.o

I know the distro I use Arch, seemed to spend the time to weight the technical/practical costs/benefits and didn't just "fall in line". https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530 And in my personal experience, using systemd has been much less of a nightmare than the old ways. Especially when it comes to cross-distro compatibilites. edit: here is some even more justification for debian, https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd I think it's rude to assume that people who run these distros didn't think about the technical aspects.