@nixCraft Nasreddin Hoja beats up a kid before sending him to get water from the river with a clay bucket, saying "Don't break the bucket!" The neighbors see this and say "Hoja! Why are you hitting the kid? He didn't do anything!" Nasreddin Hoja replies "Because when the bucket breaks, it will already be too late."

Take whatever you want from this story.

@nixCraft I swear at least 95% of the distros out there are heavily built around systemd. Even when alternatives are offered they rarely are fully adapted. So many packages will refuse even to install, and among many of those that do, no proper alternate way of handling the software seems to be used. Pipewire-pulse, for example, wants to run as a "userland service" so needs to be run at a user level, not a system level and a lot of distros that offer alternative init methods just start up with nothing but alsa (and all its problems) working...

inb4: Yes I'm aware some distros offer alternate inits, see above.

Distros seriously do need to be switching away from being so systemd focused. It was already getting way out of scope and messy anyway.