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Depends on what you mean by this in "been doing this"?

While work now mandates "If you want to use Linux, it has to be Ubuntu" (and I complied). On personal front - about a decade ago I've moved from "vanilla" Gentoo to Calculate Linux - which was and still is 100% Gentoo.

These days difference is even smaller, but already 10+ years ago Calculate had sane profiles as well as all software packages as pre compiled binaries matching those profiles.

And although systemd is one of configurable USE keywords on Calculate/Gentoo - it's still not the default.

So there probably are some folks that haven't been touched by systemd at all... For now.