Systemd has serious issues that mean personally I don't ever use it, but I feel like most common distros pick it just so gnome behaves. I'm still not sure abou

Systemd has serious issues that mean personally I don't ever use it, but I feel like most common distros pick it just so gnome behaves. I'm still not sure about the complete garbage thing but sysV init definitely wasn't good enough. busybox init if all you want are some ttys and fs and openRC are probably what you want.