E. Liddell composed on 2021-10-04 10:38 (UTC-0400):
On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 23:59:25 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
What do you have against forks?
Ordinarily, nothing, but an init system is foundational, outweighed in importance only by the kernel.
elogind and eudev are both well-supported (there was a slight hiccup a month ago when the original eudev developer left the project, but it's under new management and AFAIK doing fine, with commits being made to the source repository). These are alternate providers, not "kludges".
"Providers" that depend on developers whose job is playing catchup and maintaining workarounds for mainstream whatevers. IMO this is formula for commitment to project less likely to endure than otherwise, so more turnover, as evidenced by what you just wrote.
As for major distros, Gentoo hasn't switched
I wrote "most", not all.
it's possible that our criteria for what constitutes "major" disagree: to my mind, it's some combination of "influential" and "number of users".
When suggesting a distro, I more or less go by hands-on experience and Distrowatch, heavily discounting the rank of derivatives and derivatives of derivatives, with bonus points for length of history.
If systemd fits your use-case, then by all means use it
IMO, init system is a /really/ dumb basis for choosing a distro, and my reason for responding to the OP, though obviously that wasn't apparent. To me it's dumb to select a derivative distro as a foundation for TDE. OTOH, any distro TDE provides packages for should be just fine for anyone who needs help to select a distro to switch to from some other distro.