Comment by t43562

The only people who can really manage a big lump like systemd on their own and turn it in a direction they want are people who're getting paid to do it. It was written by someone who was paid to do it.

It's not modular and when other packages assume it's there it starts to become difficult to remove it. So where's the choice in that? This is just Linux becoming a corporate thing - going in whatever direction the big players want. When money is involved it seems to generate some quite dismissive attitudes.

On the good side, there are non commercial distros already with more than acceptable alternatives and I am using one of them now (with dinit - very nice). I'm not suffering. I have a distro that is far less complicated than Fedora and vastly easier to fit to my needs...and actually faster too. I hope we can avoid Linux becoming Windows or the Mac. Desktop domination is a silly goal - if it happened it would only result in a similarly locked down and unsatisfactory system without choice.