I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning freedesktop system made useful by the systemd system, journald, networkd, containerd, resolved, timesyncd, logind, udevd , shelld, estrogend, catd, dogd, all vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by the freedesktop foundation.

Many computer users run a modified version of the systemd system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of systemd which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the systemd, developed by the great company Red Hat Inc. of the IBM corporation.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with systemd: the whole system is basically systemd with Linux added, or systemd/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of systemd/Linux!

“what should i do when i dont want to use systemd?”
> use systemd

https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

@zenmaya @lynn fuck systemd (including its enablers like GNOME) and that whole attitude