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What on Earth for. I don't think I've used it more than a couple of times over the last 5 years, and that was for arcane stuff like enabling
rc.local(which is something every user should probably not know about...)Plex, CUPS (printing services), Minecraft servers, VPN, file sharing, DHCP/DNS/Wifi, bluetooth are some examples of basic level things systemd can help regular users manage.
Systemd goes far beyond that too.
scheduling processes, enabling services, debug services and a shit load of other things that advanced users need.