I just read it, and it surprised me because it's been a long time since they implemented it (I thought it was recent years (1–2 years)).

Also, the author said we should move to a systemd distro if we want to use GNOME.

On June 11, 2025 7:53:32 PM UTC, Marjorie Roome via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Anyone else here have any thoughts about the implications of this?
>
>"What’s changing?
>
>GNOME is about to gain a few strong dependencies on systemd, and this
>will make running GNOME harder in environments that don’t have systemd
>available."
>
>https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/
>
>I'm not a Gnome user but I do run Cinnamon which has Gnome components
>and is supported by Mint - which is a systemd distribution.
>
>Maybe I need to think about switching to Mate?
>