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> Gnome now refuses to run without systemd.

Is that true? The gentoo documentation says that you can chose your init system independently of your desktop manager, and puts openrc+gnome as an example:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME_Without_systemd/Gen...

You can also install GNOME on OpenBSD, which of course does not run systemd.

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Not GNOME itself, but Gnome Display Manager:

> After the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3, configuring GDM is only possible through systemd as it no longer supports other init systems.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

not a big deal then, there's plenty of display managers, and you don't even need one to use gnome

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