What do you use nowadays? Do you feel it addresses things better?

Can’t speak to the parent but I have a similar feeling.

Personally I’ve been using openbsd quite heavily for personal projects, for work my team transitioned from RHEL6 to FreeBSD- and while it has quirks (mostly on installation of software) it is incredibly stable.

It’s a shame my chosen cloud provider doesn’t treat it like a first class citizen, but that’s fine since the community projects seem to work on making good images.

I still use Linux on my desktop and laptop; since I feel like the design of systemd is more suited to those roles (systemd’s design in general feels like windows service activation) but I’ve been having issues that seem to be related to systemd. So it’s not winning me over.

Ditto.

I've switched to OpenBSD for nearly all personal work. We're still on RHEL/CentOS at work though.

I haven't figured out how to get xmonad running on OpenBSD yet or my workstation at work would be on it too.

Not the person you replied to but systemd was the last straw that made me switch all my servers to FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is much better at just not screwing everything up (particularly on OS updates). Sometimes I have to manually configure a new piece of hardware, but once I configure it it stays configured, and the way to configure it doesn't change from version to version.

On my new laptop I just didn't bother replacing windows. With "Bash on Windows" I can run all the unix programs I wanted to, but windows is handling all the session-management type stuff that systemd would do. I've found the system more reliable and better at responding to hardware changes. As much as there are horror stories of windows update breaking everything, I haven't experienced that myself (whereas I have had systemd updates leave systems non-booting).

I switched to Mac, ironically enough. I got tired of fiddling with my system and wanted to actually use it for stuff.