This centralization of Linux worries me

Coincidentally, today I removed systemd from my laptop (Debian Trixie.) It was reasonably easy. I booted from a USB drive into a shell through debian's "rescue" mode and typed plausible-looking apt commands until it worked. For some reason it didn't create /etc/inittab and I made a typo when I tried to do it myself, but other than that no problems. Differences noticed so far that a normal user would care about: none. If nothing goes wrong I guess I'll do the same on my desktop at home this weekend, because why not.

Nothing against systemd, but I think it's valuable to continue having other options and it was fun to see that it's still pretty easy to use them (maybe harder if you're a GNOME user, idk.)

Systemd is open source. Its bindings are open source. If snowflake distro's want to maintain this compatibility they can maintain it.

No problem. I'm drifting away from flatpak, anyway. Anything that's married to systemd is going to be a problem for an increasing number of people, over time.

NixOS is the only thing that made systemd a reasonable tool for me.

I do not like the entire paradigm of how it works.

Looks like postmarketos already put in work to have systemd working in it. That takes care of my concerns there

Works for me

OH NO, they must be devastated!

Guaranteed absence of flatpak will be a motivation for some to choose a non-systemd distro

That sucks for me as a Guix user. I haven't managed to package a GUI app I'm using from Flatpak so it was a nice escape hatch for me.

Well this sucks. I use Flatpak all the time, so I guess this means I'm going to be even more dependent on systemd than I was before.

I don't hate systemd as much as most of its detractors; in fact I like how easy it makes it to manage services, but with the age verification attestation controversy, and the performance improvements I witnessed switching my Pi-Hole box from Debian to Alpine, these things have caused me to question my use of systemd.