I cut my teeth on OpenRC and I will die with OpenRC. Actually, I don't really care about the init system, as far as I can tell. When I started using Gentoo, th

I cut my teeth on OpenRC and I will die with OpenRC. Actually, I don't really care about the init system, as far as I can tell. When I started using Gentoo, the default was OpenRC, so that is all I have ever known. I have not the faintest idea what benefit I would get from using Systemd compared to OpenRC, so I have never tried changing. I have used Debian with Systemd, and I can't particularly tell the difference from an everyday-user perspective. I used Ubuntu a few times when I think it had upstart maybe? Again, no idea what the difference is. All I know is that there are things I can do with the rest of Gentoo that I have not easily been able to do with other distros, so that is where I stay. Anyway, for anyone who hates systemd for whatever reason, Gentoo is definitely an alternative. It is a little weird to me that any distro would have a hard dependency on a particular init system, when it is clearly not necessary. More work to be compatible with multiple, I guess? At the same time, I don't really understand the hate. Just ... use something else?