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Why do you use a systemd-less distro (if you do)? (programming.dev)
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I'm curious to know why people use systemd-less distributions. Which one would you recommend to someone who wants to stop using systemd?

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[–] 9 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

Recently I started experimenting with Alpine Linux. Initially because I wanted something for a Raspberry Pi which had newer packages than Raspberry OS and was quite minimal. Now I also installed it on a spare laptop and set up a desktop environment with the River Compositor mostly just to try it out. Most things I want to do are already working as expected while after boot it uses only 380MB of RAM. So I like how minimal it is, the package management is really nice and stable and it just runs very nicely on this older laptop.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Alpine is a wonderful distribution if you can afford to opt out of all thr security improvements made in the last 20 years.

    Just try to log the keystrokes of another user (as root/some other user or even from a program running as the same user) and compare that to a modern systemd system. It is amazing what a difference the new kernel features make (revoking access, only allowing one process access) together with systemd-logind to pass access around to the right processes. There are tons more examples... any progress made right now is in systemd first. In fact most progress is never taken up outside systemd at all.

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