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Thank you for doing this. That being said, it's a little too esoteric for my tastes (among other things: "if you are looking for a stable production system tha

Thank you for doing this. That being said, it's a little too esoteric for my tastes (among other things: "if you are looking for a stable production system that respects your freedom as a computer user, a good solution at this point is to consider one of more established GNU/Linux distributions."). Do you know of any Linux distros that a) don't use systemd, b) are vaguely active / supported, and c) run on UEFI? (My current laptop, unfortunately, has UEFI. It's a royal pain, but oh well.)

davexunit 12y ago
>it's a little too esoteric for my tastes Yes, we're still in alpha. Not ready for prime time yet. >Do you know of any Linux distros that a) don't use systemd, b) are vaguely active / supported, and c) run on UEFI? Gentoo? I use Debian most of the time, which of course uses systemd now.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
  > Gentoo doesn't officially support UEFI
  - davexunit 12y ago
    Ah, didn't know that. Thanks!
josteink 12y ago
> Do you know of any Linux distros that a) don't use systemd, b) are vaguely active / supported, and c) run on UEFI? Not addressing any other of your points, doesn't most laptops/computers which ships with UEFI allow you to set it to boot in "legacy-BIOS" mode? Even if you're currently UEFI-booting, I would be seriously surprised if UEFI-support was a requirement for every OS your machine can boot.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
  I dual boot with Windows 8 for games. Windows 8 will work without UEFI, but I haven't found any information about how to downgrade an existing UEFI-based windows 8 partition to legacy bios, or if it is safe/feasible to do so. In particular, the non-existent bootloader. (Windows, as usual, seems to take the approach of "wipe + reformat", which is not exactly optimal.) If you have any ideas, feel free to let me know. And regardless, this is a temporary solution.

davexunit 12y ago

>it's a little too esoteric for my tastes Yes, we're still in alpha. Not ready for prime time yet. >Do you know of any Linux distros that a) don't use systemd, b) are vaguely active / supported, and c) run on UEFI? Gentoo? I use Debian most of the time, which of course uses systemd now.

TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
> Gentoo doesn't officially support UEFI
- davexunit 12y ago
  Ah, didn't know that. Thanks!

josteink 12y ago

> Do you know of any Linux distros that a) don't use systemd, b) are vaguely active / supported, and c) run on UEFI? Not addressing any other of your points, doesn't most laptops/computers which ships with UEFI allow you to set it to boot in "legacy-BIOS" mode? Even if you're currently UEFI-booting, I would be seriously surprised if UEFI-support was a requirement for every OS your machine can boot.

TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
I dual boot with Windows 8 for games. Windows 8 will work without UEFI, but I haven't found any information about how to downgrade an existing UEFI-based windows 8 partition to legacy bios, or if it is safe/feasible to do so. In particular, the non-existent bootloader. (Windows, as usual, seems to take the approach of "wipe + reformat", which is not exactly optimal.) If you have any ideas, feel free to let me know. And regardless, this is a temporary solution.