[voldacar]

Systemd is the obvious example, since it is essentially svchost.exe plus tons of other cruft rolled into a blob that started out as an init system.

[madhadron]

systemd was modeled after launchd in MacOS, rather than Windows. And the need for replacing SysV or BSD style init in Unix land has been acknowledge for a long time (see Solaris, for example).

[gorio]

I don't see it making much of a difference for developer OS experience though? Unless you are specifically developing for example a Linux distribution.