Comment by shrubble
4 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.
4 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.
And "because I want to" is a legitimate reason, if it's my system. It's not up for discussion.
And Void Linux. And Gentoo. And Alpine Linux. And Slackware. And others.
Systemd has recently added experimental support for musl libc, which should eventually allow Alpine to upgrade though
If they want to. Alpine is minimal. systemd is anything but. It's like the GNOME of inits.
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.
How is systemd stopping you use cron?
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