Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:50PM
> However, what I will say is that I support the Devuan philosophy of choice of init system - that is "Init Freedom"
Well, except that Devuan does not offer "init freedom" at all: you get to choose between sysvinit and sysvinit.
In Debian proper at least two different choices are supported.