Off only the top of my head.
-Potentially faster installation
-Free
-More control
-Many distributions from LinuxFromScratch to Mint, making it meet the interests of nearly every demographic
-Wonderful sense of community
-No spying
-No bloatware depending on distro
-No ads
-Many window managers supporting different workflows
-Incredible command line power
-Easy installation of software with package managers
-Less malware
-Fully customizeable ux/ui
-Can uninstall anything you don’t want
-Will help you learn how a computer works at a deeper level if you want to
It will differ by distro, but generally for debian, you begin uninstalling systemd by installing something else like
SysV init:apt install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils cp /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittabThen you will need to configure grub by editing
/etc/default/grubchanging:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/bin/systemd console=hvc0 console=ttyS0"to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/lib/sysvinit/init console=hvc0 console=ttyS0"and then executing
update-grubas root.Then you can reboot so that the system boots off of sysvinit instead and then purge systemd with
apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd. This also removes packages that depend on systemd.Then you pin systemd packages to prevent apt from installing systemd or systemd-like packages in the future.
echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd echo -e '\n\nPackage: *systemd*\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemdDepending on if the distro is multiarch, you might also need:
echo -e '\nPackage: systemd:amd64\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd echo -e '\nPackage: systemd:i386\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemdThis information was sourced from this wiki dedicated specifically to removing systemd on multiple distributions and replacing it with something else:
https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/