On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:10:14PM +0200, Oddmund G. wrote: > I know all this, Ottavio. I have been using GNU+Linux since 1994 after > several years with Ultrix/VMS/OpenVMS @DEC: Slackware in the beginning, then > Debian until the forced introduction of systemd and the rest of the crap > being considered as 'much better' and 'mandatory'.
Because systemd is good enough "base tools suite". Think of it as a base system like OpenBSD provides. It has a _lot_ of issues with reliability, consistency and whatever, but simply put, other Linux folks failed to provide similar tools. Maybe someday someone will make something better.