On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 23:59 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Please, can someone explain - without too much on the politics, if > that's possible - whether it's right for me to invest time into > learning systemd? Systemd is the future. I'm using it with Arch Linux. For my Debian install I enjoy SysVinit and I will use it as long as possible, before I switch to systemd for Debian too. IOW I dislike systemd, but indeed, investing time for learning systemd isn't wrong.