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Ive been runing Debian 12 (kde) since bookworm was released and am loving it.

I have recently discovered Devuan which seems to be Debian without systemd - what is the benefit of removing this init system?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

people that don’t want Linux to evolve

Exactly this.

The philosophical arguments are pretty garbage. I generally want to know if the "it violates the UNIX philosophy" people use browser extensions.. That violates the UNIX philosophy too. Systemd "is backed by big corp" but who do you think is actually contributing time/effort/code to the Linux kernel? It's the device manufacturers who are trying to get you to buy their products.. So that fails too.

No offense to anyone reading this but if you're really passionately anti-systemd, I would not hire you. This is a dumb hill to die on and a red flag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly bigncorp is doing the majority of the Linux kernel development. Wonder why nobody complains about that.

[–] TCB13 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe you should hire me then?