I realize this is the best option, since it centers my experience and needs better than anyone else’s summary, but what to do if I don’t have the time to daily drive enough init systems long enough to understand the scope and limitations of each?
E.g. Gentoo’s wiki has a comparison chart of all the systems I’m aware of, but I don’t know what some of the rows mean, so I would have to daily drive multiple types to get a feel for what it’s like with and without those options and how that affects me as an end-user. It also doesn’t include metrics that often get referenced but not quantified in the comparisons I find (stuff like boot times)
Furthermore, the only two times I’ve tried to switch out the init system on my PC, I’ve somehow managed to bork things so bad I had to do a fresh reinstall. Yes, I could do troubleshooting, but that’s even more hours (or even days) of downtime up front.
All this to say: I’m just looking for a little bit of a shorcut to reduce the amount of documentation I have to read, and tweaking I’ll end up doing.
Fantastic resources, especially that pistack article. Tysm!