Systemd is not my love, it's just a tool that makes my Linux boot, but init is not my son. That was bad, I apologize. Anyhow, if you want to learn how to do things the hard way, you might be interested in my unsuccessful escapade in resolving boot issues on a Fedora box powered by Systemd. All that and more in my latest OCS-Mag article. Take a look. http://www.ocsmag.com/2016/10/19/systemd-progress-through-complexity/ Cheers, Mrk
In the last 3 years of using Arch on this laptop, I have only ever had breakage issues with two "programs:" pulseaudio and systemd. Other programs have had "bugs" on occasion, but not breakage. Both of these are the brainchilds of a certain developer I wont mention. Both projects seem quite quixotic to me, though apparently pulseaudio has its merits for some. I prefer init personally, but I also prefer rolling release with great software availability (arch + aur). For now and since at least its codebase is open-source, ill stick with it. That said, I do hope for something much better in the future.
GNOME 3 can be made quite usable with three basic extensions: a Launch extension to replace activities to show applications residing in the dash, an Applications extension to restore the classic GNOME menu and Dash to Dock extension which docks favorites into a convenient dock launcher for favorite applications. It now works like a classic desktop environment because of these fixes to restore missing functionality back into GNOME 3.
That's why I stick with LTS releases. Fewer updates to botch things and I prefer stability over bleeding edge software. I go with what works.
