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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 Friday November 21 2014, @05:24AM
If you care about the truth that's it. I like systemd, I currently dislike a couple things about it's implementation, but I agree with it's design rationale and think it's a better way to do things than the old proven ways. Just because something doesn't need fixing doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. So far it's been working fine for me in my workstation, in my laptop, in my admittedly small server deployments (3-4 racks per), and in my ARM dev boards. It may not be up to all of it's promises yet, but for me it is already delivering more than any alternative.
For others it may be different, and I respect that. I don't mind, heck I support people moving to FreeBSD if it serves them better.
However you'll (almost) never see comments of mine, because the very few times I've commented I've gotten downmodded and/or insulted ad-hominem -- never any meaningful discussion, so I just don't bother commenting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @12:52PM
Maybe systemd hasn't ruined any of your systems yet, but it has ruined the systems of many others. In the case of Debian users, it hasn't just ruined their systems after performing updates. It has ruined them permanently, because systemd has ruined Debian itself.
Systemd has wronged them in so many ways, and all of this violation is completely unwanted and unnecessary. Nothing else has caused as much harm and pain for so many open source users in such a short amount of time.
That's where the hostility toward you likely comes from. You are supporting something that has harmed a huge number of people in terrible ways. So don't be surprised when you face vitriol from them for supporting systemd.