[GordonS]

At first I was skeptical, but really that was because of systemd being such a big change, when I've already worked with sysv for so long.

Now though, I really like the systemd service approach - it's so much simpler than hacking custom bash scripts, and it's actually really fully-featured too. For example, it supports lots of different service lifecycles, and even has a watchdog included that can restart failed processes.

I'm still less sure of some of the other parts, like journald, but I'm a systemd convert for services at least!