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Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd
jones_supa writes: The final release of Ubuntu 15.04 is now available. A modest set of improvements are rolling out with this spring's Ubuntu. While this means the OS can't rival the heavy changelogs of releases past, the adage "don't fix what isn't broken" is clearly one 15.04 plays to. The headline change is systemd being featured first time in a stable Ubuntu release, which replaces the inhouse UpStart init system. The Unity desktop version 7.3 receives a handful of small refinements, most of which aim to either fix bugs or correct earlier missteps (for example, application menus can now be set to be always visible). The Linux version is 3.19.3 further patched by Canonical. As usual, the distro comes with fresh versions of various familiar applications.
No problems with Unity here.
As it developed, it got better and most problems I have with it now are extremely minor. Some here compare it to Windows Metro, but that just doesn't stand. I use both Windows and Ubuntu everyday (Windows for business apps and Ubuntu for technical work). Within two weeks of using Metro, I could no longer take it and got the third party utilities that make the experience much like prior versions. With Unity the first version wasn't so painful that I stopped, and by the second iteration (as I recall) they corrected enough that I really warmed up to it. At this point, I wouldn't want them to change to anything else. There are incremental improvements I'd like to see... but it's perfectly usable.
As someone who, apart from continually getting the verb and daemon name backward, actually likes systemd, I'd like to know what issues you are talking about. So far the only issues I've had, has been having to learn some new commands.
Forewarned is forearmed 'n all that.