I’m curious to know why people use systemd-less distributions. Which one would you recommend to someone who wants to stop using systemd?

  • Tobias Hunger@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    So why bother about making init tools portable? You end up with a tool that works poorly on all OSes and nobody needs more of that.

    • misk@piefed.socialEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Even if OpenRC is not widely adopted it is a commitment from Gentoo to build their package recipes in a way that’s portable across different init systems. Keeping options open is healthy and I think one of the coolest things about Linux ecosystem historically was that there were at least two non-halfassed options for most of the system components. This also helps out little guys like BSDs who benefit from portability issues Gentoo package maintainers raise upstream.