The only people I see defending systemd is normally due to baseless claims.

My personal issue with it is that logs are stored in a database that (unless it's changed) the documentation is the implementation. There are a few places where people have reverse engineered the design to document it, but it would have been much better for them to use a documented format like sqlite.

> Most don't know anything about it.

Yes, thanks for confirming what I wrote... Uh, wait a moment, what? Most Linux users know nothing about systemd? Are we talking about the same Linux, the OS whose main users are developers and sysadmins?

> even after it has a hard dependency on an IBM AI

What are you on about? Nothing of the sort has happened.

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