I read a few articles about
these days and it was funny because I just wrote
something about it in french a week ago.
My main problem was not systemd — even if I spent a lot of time this week at trying to solve problems it created when I tried to encrypt my swap partition — problems with things apparently not linked to this — but systemd was the link.
In a way, Archlinux was a KISS distribution with an unique rc.conf-like configuration file for all services. Systemd certainly makes packaging easier, but the users can be nostalgic of the pre-systemd golden age for its simplicity.
My main problem with Linux just now is more a mix of GPL attitude and hostility to ZFS filesystem — which I like really deeply. As kernel developpers tried
as its development is now stalled by Linux 5.5,
because of modifications against ZFS using, I am really close to give up and to put FreeBSD on all my desktops. I use it on my server since a decade and am very happy with it. On desktop, things are a little rough, but I use it on a Thinkpad X220 since a year and was surprised to see that a few tasks were even more efficient than with the same machine running Archlinux. But power and wifi management are clearly worse.