Yeesh, a bit alarmist. For a while you couldn’t build GNOME 3.30+ on Gentoo without systemd but they figured it out by splitting out the necessary component into its own package (elogind). The list of hard depencies on systemd isn’t very long.

This article is weird. They could’ve just said GNU/Linux. It spends more time speaking to the finer points of distinction between the userlands than it does the data or conclusions.

OpenSUSE back in 2006 was my first when I was 14. I still use it today on Tumbleweed. I played console games mostly up until Valve released Steam on Linux. Now I have a headless Windows 10 box and stream all my games to whatever device I’m using. Running Gentoo on the server though.