[tinco]

I'm pretty happy with systemd on my macbook (running Arch). Not sure what you're doing on that ledge, but I've been running and managing linux systems for over 10 years (I only use Windows for games, and OSX on the road). systemd's user interface (i.e. writing the confs, controlling the processes) is fine, and that's about all that's important for users.

What I don't get is why so many people are in this debate. It hardly matters to anyone what init system (or 'central management and configuration system') is used. It doesn't matter to users, they just want their linux systems to boot, and their confs to be easy to write. It doesn't matter to user space developers, it's just another system to implement support for, conveniently one that's used by most distros and as far as I can tell not terribly hard to grok.