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Running a distro is a ton of work. Writing your own one off init scripts per package is even more work. The short answer is...Red Hat has money and threw it b
by axaxs 6y ago
Running a distro is a ton of work. Writing your own one off init scripts per package is even more work.
The short answer is...Red Hat has money and threw it behind systemd. Like them or hate them, they are in many ways the deciding fate of Linux systems. So, other distros fall in line. Ubuntu is a contender, but gave in and followed suit too.
Void and Solus are both good distros that don't use systemd. I'd go as far as to call Solus the best out of the box distro ive ever used.
- dTal 6y agoYou're half right, but writing init scripts is by far the easiest part of not running systemd. As a sibling comment lightly puts it - "various shims exist".
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- axaxs 6y agoWriting a few is super simple. But distros have tens of thousands of packages. Most people use it or a derivative of Ubuntu, RedHat, or Arch. All provide packages with systemd files. Heck, even most upstream packages are.