The best challenger to systemd in terms of feature parity is probably dinit: https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/ https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/ Have a look

The best challenger to systemd in terms of feature parity is probably dinit: https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/ https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/ Have a look at Chimera Linux if you want to give it a try: https://chimera-linux.org/ https://chimera-linux.org/ runit, s6, and OpenRC don't have the downsides of systemd, but they also only cover a subset of its features