This a little disingenous, the OP said he had philosophical reasons for trying to avoid systemd, he said, "I don't want it." Anybody that has done that much research would know you're not going to be able to remove it. It's troll-ish, maybe not trolling, but there are other similar threads, and as I recall at least one was locked by the administrators. We don't need another one.steve_v wrote:[
...Poorly, as of last time I tried (Jessie). Perhaps someone has some advice on how to get it running properly?Wheelerof4te wrote:Why don't you install it and try it for yourself? Then tell us how did it go.
Perhaps they might even try to answer the OPs question, rather than just trash talking them and derailing the thread into yet another advertisement for other distros.
I do still use sysvinit on a jessie system occasionally, it works fine, but I do not think you can remove systemd completely. I haven't tried it on stretch, because I am not a philosopher, I am a debian user. It would be an interesting experiment, but once again, I don't recommend it for newcomers.
Make a backup before messing around with it. Removing/hacking/adding foreign repos to get rid of systemd may leave your system in an un-upgradeable state?