It's fine for my desktop and laptop, it's not fine for my server.
My servers (generally speaking) do one thing and that thing absolutely can't be mucked with, systemd does a lot of what I would consider mucking.. binary complexity and weird integration I seriously dislike.
But it's actually beneficial on a desktop system.
My friends who have learned systemd are basically the same as you- "Eh, it's alright when it works.. and it's where everyone has gone so I guess I'll live with it"
I take exception to that statement entirely, this is open source, the land where you can replace your kernel with a BSD one and continue trucking with GNU ultilities as if nothing happened basically- why do we have to go backwards in usability for someones ego.
(and it's hard for me not to see it as one mans ego given his repeated hostility and arrogance regarding how other people use computers professionally)
Fair enough. And to be fair to me, I've been thinking seriously about moving my workstation over to a BSD. But even if I do that, I'd still have to deal with Linux for work at times.
It's my understanding that notwithstanding the current accomodations, systemd is the future for Gentoo, is that incorrect? I'm not a Gentoo user, just what I've heard from people who are.
It's not just debian/ubuntu/rhel, almost everyone has moved to systemd, even Arch Linux and Gentoo. As much as I agree with the ideas behind Devuan, knowing and understanding all the intricacies of systemd is now required knowledge for anyone doing Linux-based software development or devops. After putting it off for a while, I've moved on and have learned systemd. It's not the way I would have liked for the Linux ecosystem to have moved (I thought upstart was a decent base to build on), but I'm clearly in the minority here.
What's bothering most at this point are the binary log formats. But that changes from week to week. But it's here to stay, so I'm getting used to it.