One of my kids wanted a new computer badly enough to pay for most of it, and I have been wanting to upgrade the main house server for a year or so. Parts for both arrived this week.

Let’s quote a Debian Developer, who I will not name:

“Oh, and by the way, systemd bloody works on my system. I can’t even remember when I switched to it. It Just Worked.”

The problem with systemd is that he’s got one system, not five hundred, and he somehow thinks that makes it a representative sample.

I don’t have any such confidence.

Let’s say you install a new Debian system using the Jessie release, which will become the next stable release in a few months. And let’s say that you would prefer not to be enmeshed in systemd.

Too bad.

However, you can remove it.