I would tend to agree with you that the average user does not need to know
what is happenong under the hood.. eh why bother? But I, like a large linux
user base, are curious about this.. (that is the reason why I got involved in
the first place with Linux).
I am of the opinion that systemd is important and that any init daemon with
capable parallel capabilities is a necessity esp with the development of
technology.
I have used arch on the raspberry pi as compared to raspbian that is
developed specifically for it.. Arm Arch uses systemd and there is a clear
cut difference in the performance of the OS on the Pi..
There is a brilliant article in Ubuntu User Summer 2014 mag that gives an
interesting take on systemd.. I know that Ubuntu does not follow the Trisquel
philosophy but as the distro will be adopting systemd, this article is
important.
https://www.ubuntu-user.com/
I am to understand the trisquel would not work on the raspberry pi due
hardware conflict..
