Fwiw, some distros have stuck with different init systems: Void uses runit, Devuan (Debian fork) uses sysvinit, Gentoo uses OpenRC[1]. There are probably more t

Fwiw, some distros have stuck with different init systems: Void uses runit, Devuan (Debian fork) uses sysvinit, Gentoo uses OpenRC[1]. There are probably more that I am not aware of. Systemd has not given me any trouble, yet, but I run Void in a VM, and it boots extremely fast. [1] I believe one can also use different init systems on Gentoo, after all it is Gentoo, but I have not touched it in years, so I do not know for sure.