I'm not abandoning it because of systemd specifically but the whole Linux boot/init stuff is hell and the platform is death by a thousand papercuts when somethi

I'm not abandoning it because of systemd specifically but the whole Linux boot/init stuff is hell and the platform is death by a thousand papercuts when something goes snap. That's reason enough on its own. I recently had to rescue a CentOS 7 box with failed mdadm RAID1. Between grub, md, initrd, LVM and systemd it was three hours of hell. This was due to an md failure causing corruption on a mirror disk rather than a physical disk failure as well. Windows and FreeBSD with ZFS are beautiful in comparison. I've come to recommend those over Linux these days.