Agreed. I run Debian Testing and was able to upgrade ~5 machines without a hitch. Yes, I do have some odd behavior with the brightness key (but only when a second display is plugged in...), but I'm running Testing so I'm happy to trade an occasional annoyance for more recent packages.
The biggest problem I've had with systemd (I now have about 200 machines running it/Jessie) is that I tend to blame everything on systemd... DHCP problems on boot! Must be systemd! (It wasn't...)
Yup, let's face it, RedHat have bet the farm on systemd and the facilities/programs that go with it, so it will have to work and work well for 10+ years minimum.
RHEL7 and the clones have systemd v208. Debian Testing just had v215 arrive. Freeze is quite soon, so it looks like 215 will be the systemd version that ships, so the packagers will have to backport security fixes to it for the life of Jessie (say 2 years or so). Just wondering how much work that will be if systemd continues to iterate at the speed it is doing...
PS: why so many 'machines' (desktop clients, workstations?) running an unstable Debian I'm idly wondering...
The biggest problem I've had with systemd (I now have about 200 machines running it/Jessie) is that I tend to blame everything on systemd... DHCP problems on boot! Must be systemd! (It wasn't...)