[AstralStorm]

I am running systemd on Gentoo. (like Sabayon) While some of the features are nice, it is a royal pain to upgrade due to intertwined deps and forced restarts.

And it doesn't do anything OpenRC couldn't do, in fact its journald is a pain which had to be worked around. OpenRC way of doing socket activations and dbus activations also works slightly better (in case something crashes) It does parallelism just as well, service dependencies too.

Gentoo does not mangle anything related to systemd unlike the mentioned distributions.

[svennek]

Yeah, Gentoo is quite nice in that regard, but isn't it still focussed on openrc? I was a ten plus years gentooo user before I switched to Arch (mostly because I got fed up with compiling)

[jakeogh]

OpenRC is the first option in the install guide, but you can choose systemd. I cant think of a good reason to do so.