Relevant TL;DR:<p><i>While testing, my experience with systemd was decidedly mixed. On the desktop, I hardly notice it.</i><p><i>Debian 8 on the server is a different story, though.</i><p><i>In my case, enough has gone wrong that I suggest you don't jump in immediately with both feet.</i><p>Overall, the article's tone is extraordinarily generous towards debian itself. The author clearly has a background in system administration, and is reviewing a distribution that is used primarily by sysadmins[1]. He dedicates three terse paragraphs to the actual meat (debian 8 on the server), and spends the rest of the article waxing about what's new, and the desktop experience.<p>I wouldn't go so far as to call this a fluff piece, but they're definitely attempting to cast debian in the best light possible with this article.<p>1. (unless you can point me to a sizeable debian desktop population - ubuntu doesn't count anymore post-snappy, but I'd love to be proven wrong on LMDE's numbers.)