Egregoros

postmarketos had to switch to systemd to be able to offer an immutable distribution (ignoring that gardenhouse exists, since its pretty new) to avoid having to implement a bunch of custom stuff
im sorry but how did only a minority of people look at the monopoly systemd has and realize that its actually not good to have that
everyone always complains about google and meta and microsoft having a monopoly but with systemd its completely okay?
systemd is essentially doing the same thing as those companies, locking features into their own massive codebase through dependencies that are completely unwarranted

you know, the thing is
my main dislike about systemd really is just the monolith it has become, and some of the weird API decisions, but thats whatever

really the reason i started working on Gardenhouse is that some of the utilities systemd has are really good ideas, but having them all weirdly interlinked with pid-1 and whatever is just so annoying

systemd as in the init system absolutely isnt irreplacable, navi has been diong great work on OpenRC and other systems like r6 look really nice, but for example systemd-stub, before i made Stem systemds kernel stub was literally the only UKI compatible stub, that was an area which systemd absolutely was irreplacable in