On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and > numerous failed trials, I came to the conclusion that systemd has > become too entrenched in the dependency tree of Buster to successfully > convert to systvinit. If you specify "... on a desktop system", then maybe you're correct. For most servers, it shouldn't be an issue.