HuangLao wrote:you could always check out http://www.slackware.com/ or http://www.salixos.org/ if you want to avoid systemd.
Of course you can use sysv on Debian still or play with Devuan.
I have no problem avoiding Systemd, but that's besides the point. I'm not talking on behalf of myself, as I am of those that will always manage no matter what.
I don't need a distro to use. I use TweakOS. My own distro. Nothing else. But it's based on Debian, and therefore I decided to go with whatever is the default in Debian. But I'm starting to question if this was the right "choice". Regardless whether I would choose Systemd or not myself, I dislike the way that it has been pushed down on us...
Personally I started to use Systemd many years ago, but the big difference is that back then I did it by choice. And of course that Systemd then started out as a init-system, but has evolved into something that is starting to feel like it's taking over pretty much everything. So you see, it's only now I'm starting to get bad feelings about it...