[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]
http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:
First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.
Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.
(Score: 1) by jmorris on Friday November 21 2014, @08:02PM
By their fruits shall ye know them.
PulseAudio still does not work. My Thinkpad has no end of issues due to it. It still doesn't have a real reason to exist yet, mostly because of GNOME's dependency, almost every system installs it by default. Some see a bad design pattern repeating.
And once you actually LOOK at systemd the reasons to dislike it are easy to find. Even if you think adopting svchost and event logging from Windows is a good idea, the implementation in systemd is substandard. I don't think it is a good idea so wouldn't like it if DJB himself dropped GPL code with his usual mathematical proof of correctness from his Cathedral.