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[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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @11:36PM
>when hundreds of thousands, if not millions
I think you mean hundreds, if not thousands.
I'd be amazed if the Debian Install base had more than 20-40k total users, excluding servers since 1 "user" can control hundreds of "servers", etc.
a few of the comments here are indeed correct though, just because the vocal minority don't like something doesn't mean that everyone feels the same way. I know for a fact I'll never take part in such surveys because I'll be you know... actually using linux and not browsing some shitty personal blog with maybe 50 unique visitors daily.