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Comparing someone's Linux software with windows software is probably the worst insult you give give a Linux dev.
But yeah that makes sense, it's just kind of bloated and has more features than it needs.
Also a lot of other libraries depend on systemd?
I can understand now, Linux has always been about options and systemd is making it harder for people to chose different options.