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I think Gentoo explicitly does not do systemd, might be worth it to look at that if you want to avoid systemd, considering that I think the "official" stance of
by tombert 2y ago
I think Gentoo explicitly does not do systemd, might be worth it to look at that if you want to avoid systemd, considering that I think the "official" stance of Arch is systemd.
There's also SixOS coming soon (https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/event/sixos-a-nix-os-without-systemd/ https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/event/sixos-a-nix...). NixOS does kind of a similar atomic thing, so you might enjoy that, but vanilla NixOS is systemd based, so once SixOS drops you might get exactly what you want.
- opan 2y agoGentoo can do systemd or OpenRC, but I think systemd is default. I would recommend Guix System if you don't want systemd, as it uses GNU Shepherd instead.
- tombert 2y agoI'd be mostly concerned with package selection with Guix System. Don't you have to go out of your way to install anything proprietary on there? Also doesn't it use a Linux kernel without any blobs? I would think that drivers could be an issue.
- opan 2y agoYes, you're correct on both counts. You can add non-default channels and get a different kernel if you so desire. Personally I have stuck to the defaults.
- plagiarist 2y agoArch does have systemd by default, but there seem to be options to do an install without. Probably a lot of struggle down that road for a desktop environment though. I saw some of that SixOS and I am really interested. There was an "ownerboot" tool they linked to that also looked nice to me.