By all means, be the change you want to see. All I know about OpenRC is that it doesn't support user services the same way systemd does. I know even less about runit or s6, so I'd love to hear more from people who use them in their daily computing. Because unfortunately the impression I get from never seeing anyone talk about OpenRC, Shepherd, Upstart, et cetera; is that either nobody uses them, or they don't add anything worth noting over SysVinit.
Though I'm surprised that you say:
> Every time systemd comes up everyone says it's great and how much better it is
When my experience is usually that people complain about systemd and it being over-engineered and doing too much and having too many components (yes, I know that those projects are related to systemd, not part of it, I'm just saying what I see people mention as downsides).
OpenRC just works for me (Alpine) there’s a declarative side that’s more than enough for simple services, but you can override logic for starting, stopping, reloading,… as it’s just a shell script.
> unfortunately the impression I get from never seeing anyone talk about OpenRC, Shepherd, Upstart, et cetera; is that either nobody uses them
People do use them. Multiple distros either default to one of those, or support it: Alpine, Devuan, MX Linux, Slackware, Void, Guix, Gentoo and others.
> or they don't add anything worth noting over SysVinit.
Not looked at this myself, but do they mostly not add something - dependencies, easier config or something?
Though I'm surprised that you say:
> Every time systemd comes up everyone says it's great and how much better it is
When my experience is usually that people complain about systemd and it being over-engineered and doing too much and having too many components (yes, I know that those projects are related to systemd, not part of it, I'm just saying what I see people mention as downsides).