"if only all the people put half the effort of writing the tirades about Pottering and SystemD into writing their SysV init replacement we would have a working alternative"
Why would I feel the need to write a replacement for something which has been working for me without major problems for two decades?
If I did want to stop using sysvinit there are already several working alternatives apart from systemd, but it seems that pretending otherwise is quite a popular activity.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
