Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian

TL;DR

I'm not a fan of systemd but I'm not against its use either. AKA if it works for you then it's ok.

My case though is more of a mix between curiosity and discomfort. Curiosity of how init systems works and discomfort of how systemd integrates things or new features.I'm aware that it works well for most of its use cases (I've been using it since its early days) and also I agree that systemd breaks all KISS philosphy principles, but other projects do it as well, right?

So why the discomfort?

Well it began a while ago, when I was reading some news of how the project started to grab more and more responsibilities that belongs to other projects and how some prod deployments failed so bad because of a breaking change that could've been prevented if that responsibility wasn't part of systemd. Nothing too worrying for me though, in any case the first real kick of discomfort came when age verification law was cooking and my innocent thought was Ok, Windows and Mac will integrate it, but Linux and other OpenSource OSs and projects will "fight" against this ridiculous law!! .

Then my next thought was Wait what?, the law is not even approved on some states/countries and systemd already integrated it, why?, what happened with the usual "fight" against non-sense laws? .

I got pretty mad about it, I know, I'm not a contributor of that project and it's only an optional field but it didn't feel right at all. All the hate that the dev got wasn't right either.

Then the second kick of discomfort came while I was reading tech news and I found this one systemd integrates sys-install systemd integrates it's own "system installer" called 'systemd-sysinstall' among other things .

All right, one thing is to have tons of responsibilities for an init system. But another one is going from being PID 1 to being the sys installer too, and no matter how you want to sell that idea there's an ocean of difference on what you can call "Init system responsibilities" and "Systemd's weird responsibilities and wishes". So the curiosity entered the game and decided to try to install OpenRC on my Thinkpad X13s Snapdragon which I use for home hacking, testing stuff, etc. Laptop is running Debian BTW.

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