Basically systemd is not just a replacement for init, it's a huge project which reimplements a lot of "legacy" services that were handled by other packages. So people think it steps over its boundaries. Not being very Unix-y.

That said, anything is better than bloody sysvinit. Kids these days don't know how much jank and spaghetti we had to deal with back in those crappy days

If you need to ask, it most certainly doesn't matter to you. Keep using what you are using.

There is no issue with systemd. It has been a huge improvement over what was there and it is still improving.

It makes the system consistent without having to configure it using arcane shell scripts. It gives you easy to read config files. It just makes the administrator's life easier.

The main concerns are:

• It's mainly developed and funded by red hat a company owned by ibm which has made a lot of bad decisions over the years (of the top of my head I remember their distro's source code was made available to customers only)
• it's one piece of software that does a ton of different things, this is generally considered a bad thing as it increases the attack surface for potential vulnerabilities but as far as I understand, since it's one of the most maintained software in the Linux ecosystem the probability of it having critical vulnerabilities is probably still pretty low

That being said, if it works fine for you and those problems don't bother you there's not much reason to use something else.

I use it and it does the job, but the problem is that it doesn't adhere to Unix philosophy of pluggable components that do one thing. In fact, the systemd suite does dozens of things:

• init system
• manages services
• login
• user sessions
• system logs
• devices
• networking
• DNS resolution
• timers
• clock synchronization
• containers
• even boot loader

What's the issue with systemd?

Don’t put all your fruit in one basket applies.

There is none these days

Some people overreacted.

In practice, it's basically been a huge benefit for Linux and fixed a lot of issues

The distro also uses the German XFCE

Good choice! Prioritising a custom kernel for quicker performance. Swapping out the Init system is tricky.