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Another option to consider is FreeBSD, which can be especially attractive for those of us who want to avoid systemd.
by pmoriarty 4y ago
Another option to consider is FreeBSD, which can be especially attractive for those of us who want to avoid systemd.
- cowtools 4y agoThere are non-systemd linux distros like alpine and gentoo. With elogind and such, you can run gnome and such without systemd.
- pmoriarty 4y agoI've run Gentoo since 2004, and all the non-stop compiling has finally driven me away from that distro. It's just too much of a waste of time, a drain on my system's resources and wear on my disks. It used to be bearable back in the day, but now software has gotten so bloated that compiling it all constantly is just ridiculous... especially on older, slower systems.
- cowtools 4y agoI agree. Gentoo ought to have better binpkgs support. Alpine is a nice alternative, albeit it doesn't have USE flags.
- Sentient-HN 4y agowhy not just use another init system? I've had great experiences with runit, and they say s6 is good as well.
- pmoriarty 4y agoIt's not so easy to ditch systemd on a lot of distros, because it's tied so closely in to everything else. Also, I don't know about you but I don't want to waste my time writing init scripts for every application I run that needs them. I'd much rather just use a distro that has already written them for me.
- circularfoyers 4y agoI'd argue using an OS and init system with significantly less support compared to Linux is more likely to have a lot more reasons to hold you back.
- NexRebular 4y agoWe swapped linux for FreeBSD in one of our classrooms at $WORK. It just works.