There are a couple of legitimate complaints, such as the way it stores logs in binary format and how it deals with errors in stdout. Then, there's the bit about how it defies the 'UNIX philosophy' - which is, "do one thing - and do it well". systemd is nothing like that. It's a giant, bloated piece of init software that has incorporated all sorts of shit it didn't need - including DNS. Why an init system is dealing with DNS, I do not know... But... I actually like it. I know how to use it for many things and it just fucking works. Even if I were aiming for a lighter system, avoiding 'bloatware', I'd probably still include systemd - because it kills all sorts of birds with one stone. Until 18.04, Lubuntu was a 'lightweight' distro and it used systemd from like version 12.04. It's still pretty light, but that's no longer the key focus of the distro. It's kinda cool (on that subject). I get to help dictate the direction Lubuntu goes. I get to help decide what changes are made, what's incorporated, and how it is presented to the public. To a lesser extent, simply because of my 'newness' and lack of history with the distro, I get to make choices like that with Ubuntu - but I really don't have the time to concentrate on more than just Lubuntu and my other projects. Also, a modern SSD can handle more writes than you're gonna put on it in a decade. The earlier SSDs had some issues, but so long as you're doing a regular TRIM, you should be good with longevity. Put it this way, Backblaze uses SSDs in some applications (where it's not mostly static storage). If you know anything about them and their annual reports about drive longevity (considered the industry standard) then I'd highly suggest looking 'em up. They store a whole lot of stuff (for other companies) and do periodic reports about drive longevity and other metrics. Now, it's true that an SSD is gonna fail earlier than an HDD (especially today's modern HDD), it's got millions of writes before it reaches the MTBF. LOL I say this 'cause, well, I have to... I was a very, very early adopter of SSD tech. So, I gotta defend 'em! If you have a data center with long-term static storage - or storage that can be written to slowly - an HDD is still superior. For your home user? Your SSD is gonna last you a decade. I have some early SSDs that still haven't failed. I gotta stand up for my SSDs! Also... DUDE!!!!! Have you used the 'new' NVMe M.2 SSDs?!? I will never use anything but those from now on - until something better comes along. Holy balls! After filling out the information to install, the installation of Lubuntu 20.04 (the part where it writes data to your drive) took less than *four minutes*. I didn't believe it, so I did it a second time.