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Not GNOME itself, but Gnome Display Manager:

> After the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3, configuring GDM is only possible through systemd as it no longer supports other init systems.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

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not a big deal then, there's plenty of display managers, and you don't even need one to use gnome