Consider using Devuan, the Debian variant which removes systemd. It is basically in sync with the current Debian, with only a minimum of packages changed for the systemd removal.
As others have said - I don't want to hijack this thread in favor of a systemd-yes-or-no argument. In fact, I made it a point not to use derogatory or inflammatory language in my post, and still got a bunch of downvotes.
you will find stories involving systemd here on HN over the past several years. I and many others oppose various aspects of systemd, but more importantly, we oppose its being a nearly-inescapable default on Debian. It's not like you can just remove it if you want something else.
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Consider using Devuan, the Debian variant which removes systemd. It is basically in sync with the current Debian, with only a minimum of packages changed for the systemd removal.
https://www.devuan.org
The current release is Beowulf, corresponding to buster.
The website says Devuan let's you "reclaim control over their system by avoiding unnecessary entanglements", what's wrong with systemd?
Please let's not start this discussion again, when it's been done to the death in other easily-searchable places on the internet before.
The (IMHO) best critique I'm aware of is at https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/ (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072 )
As others have said - I don't want to hijack this thread in favor of a systemd-yes-or-no argument. In fact, I made it a point not to use derogatory or inflammatory language in my post, and still got a bunch of downvotes.
At this link: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=systemd
you will find stories involving systemd here on HN over the past several years. I and many others oppose various aspects of systemd, but more importantly, we oppose its being a nearly-inescapable default on Debian. It's not like you can just remove it if you want something else.
Not much, but Unix purists would argue that systemd violates the Unix philosophy. https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/
It was written by a cowboy coder and issues have cropped up that indicate no serious code review has been performed.