Comment by shrubble

6 hours ago

There’s a reason why Devuan (a non systemd Debian) exists. Don’t want to get into a massive argument, but there are legitimate reasons for some to go in a different direction.

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greenbit  3 hours ago

And "because I want to" is a legitimate reason, if it's my system. It's not up for discussion.

smartmic  6 hours ago

And Void Linux. And Gentoo. And Alpine Linux. And Slackware. And others.

  • forty  5 hours ago

    Systemd has recently added experimental support for musl libc, which should eventually allow Alpine to upgrade though

  • eth0up  5 hours ago

    After over a decade of Debian, when I upgraded my PC, I tried every big systemd-based distro, including opensuse, which I wholly loathed. I finally decided on Void and feel at home as I did 20+ years ago when I began.

    There are serious problems with the systemd paradigm, most of which I couldn't argue for or against. But at least in Void, I can remove network-manger altogether, use cron as I always have, and generally remain free to do as I please until eventually every package there is has systemd dependencies which seems frightfully plausible at this pace.

    Void is as good as I could have wanted. If that ever goes, I guess it's either BSD or a cave somewhere.

    I'm glad to see the terse questions here. They're well warranted.