Try using a distro that is less ultra optimized for gaming on modern hardware. You have a legacy system, try something like debian or arch

I really hope not

I think too that this is it, those malts op listed, while carrying a lot of flavour, do not have many enzymes, op might not have converted enough starch

The contradiction is in the claim that the vocal minority is significant. One could argue that the lack of mainstream distros not using systemd is an indicator of the lack of a significant population against it.

Are you aware that the majority of cpus sold today go to cloud computing? Believe it or not, but that is an application space with multiple users on the same machine.

In their defense there only so many big rivers, round there, and most do function as border