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For desktops it doesn't make much sense, but now everything's so oriented to systemd its actually starting to affect embedded Linux applications... so lets try our best to keep the alternatives alive.
So what do you do under Linux? Browse the web?
Okeeeeeey, so who's is stuck in their ways?
I'm on Guix which doesn't use SystemD. Running on an MSI GS66 Stealth laptop with an Nvidia RTX¹ 3080. I browse the web, develop, run Stable Diffusion on the GPU, game using Steam and Lutris (Chivalry 2 and Diablo 4), Zoom calls for work.
Mainly this just like any other machine.
¹ or whatever the letters are these days.
I'm not recommending non-systemd inits, but in a desktop usage, I never wrote a single script with MX Linux and Alpine. Their init system just works.