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People who use distros without systemd, why do you do this? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not an anti-systemd extremist. I use Void because it is a simple distro that doesn't break as often as Arch does, while also being very up-to-date.

I do have some things I dislike about systemd though which is why I will continue avoiding it in the future.

  • It doesn't follow the Unix Philosophy. This is a big problem for me, I want to be able to switch out different parts of my system as I please. Systemd is a collection of projects that are all so deeply integrated that you can't use them without also running the Systemd init system. And now Desktop Environments are starting to depend on Logind for example and there's no alternative for non-systemd users. (Except Elogind but that's just Logind ripped out of SystemD)
  • It's bloated and has many features I don't use. I just need an init system to start all my services at boot and restart them if they fail. Nothing more

Also using a Distro without Systemd is not really that hard

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I really need to meet irl somebody who got it's arch system breaking by itself, because i installed it dozens of times and it never happened to me