a) Debian stable, Ubuntu, rhel6 don't have systemd. So no our servers don't.

b) it can't assume heuristics like that if the vendor changes so no it can't. This was based on a complete data transplant.

When I complain about Windows, I'm expected to complain about things that are still present in the latest version of windows (8.1 currently), not things that are no longer an issue since XP. In return, I expect you to do the same when complaining about Linux.

This is a solved problem and systemd is coming to debian as well.

In that case that would be complaining about windows 9. There are no mmainstream distributions shipping systemd yet.

Windows 8.1 is not mainstream either, compared to 7.

I'm sitting in an office with 120x 8.1 systems at the moment so...