this reeks of scare-tactics Yes, but avoiding risk is a valid argument for avoiding anything new. Avoidance of risk is why many people like Debian, so hearing

this reeks of scare-tactics Yes, but avoiding risk is a valid argument for avoiding anything new. Avoidance of risk is why many people like Debian, so hearing that some users and developers of Debian are not in favor of systemd, even if only due to the fact that it's something very new and very different, seems quite reasonable. Systemd does provide a sufficient amount benefits you would be out of your mind to think they are putting in this effort to migrate to systemd if they hadn't done a technical consideration and decided it was a worthwhile thing doing To some people and some workloads, very much yes, systemd is a very good thing. To other people and workloads and system configurations, systemd doesn't help and sometimes even hurts. Really, to each their own. But this really is the whole point of FOSS, there are other init systems besides systemd and other OS than Linux where the use of systemd has not been deemed to be worthwhile. If you feel similarly, use one of those distributions/OS and contribute to it so that it doesn't go away. I'm not a fan of systemd. I run Debian stable. I'm not sure what I will do once Jessie becomes the stable release.