Although GNU / Linux It is quite versatile and it is not complicated at all to customize almost any aspect of it, the truth is that sometimes we use a distro and a decision of their developers It "ties" us to a certain tool. Especially if we are not relatively advanced users -which would allow us to modify things to our liking- but not to despair because parallel projects, forks or whatever you want to call them always arise, and that they are nothing other than alternatives that seek to get rid of those ties. As the fork of Debian to bypass Systemd, or as GNOME Without Systemd, whose name makes the objective that it pursues very clear.
As is straightforward to understand, what its developers were looking for was a form of arrange the environment GNOME in Gentoo and Funtoo without the dependencies with Systemd, for which they are based on the launch of OpenRC, the ConsoleKit framework for user management or for the startup sessions and UPower in conjunction with Power Management Utilities (known as pm-utils) to manage the restart, suspension, hibernation or shutdown of the equipment, in addition to the clear energy management.
But it is better to clarify the doubts and that is why we have to say that there is no download here, but rather a step-by-step guide with the procedure that will lead to success when installing GNOME. And the developer of GNOME Without Systemd He has a lot of faith, to the point that he believes that his project is the most complete and safe way to achieve the goal of using this desktop without the controversial startup manager, and there is documentation about it elsewhere but he assures that in your site is the most appropriate form. Between the GNOME versions that are supported in this project we have 3.14, 3.16, 3.18 and the newest 3.20, although the level of adjustment required in the last three is somewhat higher than for the first. However, everything is well documented on the website of this project and it is nothing that cannot be solved with a little time, good will and desire.
Further information: GNOME Without Systemd (space on GitHub)
If systemd dies !!!!!
Better options are, nothing like a clean boot system that doesn't look like windows.