Systemd is used on ~70-90% of all distros. You don’t have to use systemd, but you’re probably going to be stuck using it. But you don’t have to. You could also install… Gentoo?
Systemd being good or bad is irrelevant. We’re talking about a corporate entity being the sole decision maker in an open source setting. Quality != Consensus.
Why? You can always do things differently than other distros
Systemd is used on ~70-90% of all distros. You don’t have to use systemd, but you’re probably going to be stuck using it. But you don’t have to. You could also install… Gentoo?
It’s widely used because it’s good.
Nobody is forcing all these distros to adopt systemd. Nobody is forcing distros to stick to systemd.
Systemd being good or bad is irrelevant. We’re talking about a corporate entity being the sole decision maker in an open source setting. Quality != Consensus.
Redhat doesn’t control debian or arch
Yes, that is correct. At ~8% of desktop Linux market share and ~20-30% server, they are not the defacto leader in the open source community.