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>4) Do I like the configuration of things that are harder to change (package manager, init system, hotplug deamon, display manager, standard root dirs etc.) Go
by warrenm 4y ago
>4) Do I like the configuration of things that are harder to change (package manager, init system, hotplug deamon, display manager, standard root dirs etc.)
Gotta say - if you're worried about the package manager, init system, hotplug daemon, standard root directories, etc ... you should be building your own distro from scratch :)
None of those things matter from a technical standpoint (I know - people miss init.d, but I have yet to hear a real reason as to WHY they miss it (beyond the, "well in MY day we walked uphill on broken glass in the snow both ways - and we LIKED it!" responses))
You're not even going to see differences in standard root directories unless you're looking for /etc/httpd and you need to go to /etc/apache2 instead (I've been running Ubuntu on my servers for a few years, and still manage to try to cd into the RHEL/CentOS structure sometimes ... but that's easy enough to correct when you get the error message reminding you you're not on Red Hat anymore) - but how often are you really monkeying around where the specific directory structure even matters?
- usrn 4y agoSome of the defaults for systemd can be pretty annoying. Killing tmux when you end your session is something Pop OS still does for example. SysV init kind of sucked but I think OpenRC is legitimately better than SystemD. Each new version of SystemD brings new brokenness that you don't necessarily expect, the result is a broken platform. >You won't even see the structure of the root directories The software you use will though. If you're running non-free software it will probably depend on a specific structure. But yeah I build my own distro because I can't stand the opinions other distro maintainers have.
- warrenm 4y ago>The software you use will though. If you're running non-free software it will probably depend on a specific structure. In 25+y I can say I've NEVER seen this Not. Even. Once. If a product as required a specific set of directories (I'm looking at you Opsware/HP/Microfocus SA[S]) ... just make them and move on Otherwise? Since I first installed Red Hat 3.3 in the mid/late 90s, I've not seen a single piece of software care about where it went :)