At the moment I have 5 installs (different DEs) each of Wheezy, Jessie, and Sid. I, like many others, have had no significant issues with systemd. Those that I personally know who have had problems were sorted within days.

The talk of Debian "basically being RedHat" is not correct.

The talk about forking Debian to avoid systemd is also not correct. It doesn't take into account that systemd is only the default, like Gnome is the default. You do not have to have systemd if you don't want it. You do have choices and all this talk is based on nothing but misinformation and only helps to spread the exact same information.

It really is a pity that on a message group like this that such misinformation is spread so easily as though it is truth.