I was wanting to remove systemd from Opensuse and could not find out any information on how to do so or if it was even possible to remove systemd in favor of sysvinit.

Looking around I finally found that you can remove systemd and use sysvinit from this link.

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Managing_Systemd

But I have a question.

It says "uninstall systemd. This should be done only with maximum care because the risk of having a system not booting is high;
At least if you have the rpm systemd-sysvinit remove it, otherwise /sbin/init is symlinked to systemd. [see also below]"

So what is the right and preferred way to remove systemd. I saw that xorg and yast is required by the systemd package. And also I install the sysvinit package first then remove systemd then reboot and inside the kernel command line add init=/sbin/init then the system will boot without systemd, right?

So the order that I will want to do this in is:

1.) download sysvinit package

2.) remove systemd and its dependencies

3.) reboot system

4.) add init=/sbin/init

5.) boot to desktop

Thank You!

Yes, you can do this, but

it will slow down your system boot time.

AFAIK, unlike Debian in openSuse you are not really meant to slash out the init system and replace it with something else. This means that many packages likely are compiled with systemd support and may or may not be broken when systemd is missing or not running as PID 1. In any case you will need to have deep understanding about openSuse and its inner workings for such an operation. My recommendation if you don't want to run systemd would be to not use openSuse, go for Slackware, Gentoo, CRUX or Void Linux, in all of them systemd is either not present or not the default. You may also go for Debian and switch out systemd with SysVInit, Debian supports that and it is quite easy to do.

Agreed

If you don't want to use systemd, then don't use an OS that defaults to systemd and doesn't provide an easy and supported method for getting rid of it. You will likely break nearly every other package in the system by trying to do this, and there's really no point when there are plenty of other distros that don't use systemd in the first place.

if you really do want a systemd free distribution use one, for example Slackware

So you have actually got opensuse to run without systemd? What steps did you take to do it? I already know, that I would have to recompile some packages like X, kernel, and GRUB.

I know that switching init systems will possibly break my system. I also know that I can change to another distro to fulfill my non systemd needs. I like .rpm distros because of the ease of use of the package system and the ease of the spec file and the fact that their is the spec file. But their are no non systemd based .rpm distros or guides to remove systemd, as .rpm distros are heavily intergrated with systemd. So when I found that article the said it was possible to replace systemd I was excited. Its going to take a lot of work, but hopefully I can get it to a half way state.

Then use CentOS 6, it'll still be supported for the next 5 years.

use PClinux

http://www.pclinuxos.com/

RHEL/CentOS/SL6.7 do not use SystemD

BUT

for most things it actually IMPROVES THINGS

if you really want to stay in the last decade

you will have to use older legacy support Operating Systems

Thats true, I forgot about how long the CentOS guys supported their Distro's.

Ya, I would feel as if I were living in Cuba or North Korea, their still stuck in the 1950's!