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    People who use distros without systemd, why do you do this? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    By importance, descending:

    First, I don't like people promoting systemd. I don't need it more than other init systems. It's about picking the right group.

    Second, I want a simple distribution so I use Void, which famously uses runit. It's about being lazy.

    Third, I don't like the idea of it sprouting dependencies which it shouldn't. It's about paranoia. See recent news with a backdoor which wouldn't work if not for this.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Why Void? Genuine question.

    I was trying different distros to replace my Zorin, I tried NixOS (didn't like the setup), GoboLinux (really like the idea, but it's very buggy). I ended up using EndevoursOS (arch btw) and I really love pacman/AUR, but I'm still not married to it

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I actually don't remember why I lost my patience and just tried Void then (4 years ago). Maybe had something to do with installing a Linux on a laptop after using only FreeBSD for some time, and sound setup and brightness control being confusing (actually everything in Linux is more clumsy and messy, so wanted a simple distribution).

    Debian I like, but it has a bit older versions of packages, as everyone knows, and also kernel versions, thus hardware support.

    Fedora - I don't like the culture.

    OpenSUSE - I like it, but didn't bother back then and now why change anything.

    Arch - I don't like the idea of regularly solving problems which can be avoided by maintainers. AUR is attractive. The culture of clueless people proud of the fact that they installed Arch is a bit irritating.

    Gentoo and Funtoo - I like them, but time spent on compilation could be used better.

    Slackware - my favorite distribution, but it's a bit manual, so even more chores than with Arch. I think I might try it again.

    And also Void has something just a bit similar to FreeBSD ports. I'd prefer it to be a real ports collection like in CRUX (which I might try some day), and I use pkgsrc anyway for such things now.

    [–] BuryMyHorse 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    AUR was a security hell for me. Same goes for Fedora, which is ironic.

    Arch btw

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    One thing that is really annoying me in AUR is how frequently thing break. Just the other day I had to tweak my settings because Hyprland pushed a breaking change.

    [–] dai 3 points 8 months ago

    The comment change?

    If so that was fun, I updated my hyprland / hy3 flakes and I was bombarded by flashing red notifications indicating I'd caused Satan to return. Trawling through all my hyprland Configs I eventually put an end to the chaos.

    If not, I guess I'll find out next time I update my flakes lol.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    the logo is cool :)