systemd cat and GNU cat hugging a Linux cat.
Artix is an under-appreciated gem.
Why should I not use systemd?
Contrarianism
Perfectly legitimate reason to do/ not do anything
/s
I disagree.
because the over 70 different binaries of systemd are “not modular” because they are designed to work together. What makes a monolith is, apparently, the name of the overarching project, not it being a single binary (which again, it’s not)
If I cared about modularity I’d use something like Hurd, but i actually need to get shit done
What makes it a monolith is that the 70 binaries refuse to do their one job (see: Unix philosophy) independently.
A few months ago, a systemd update broke my boot process because I dared set up my device-mapper nodes manually in a minimal initrd without having a second copy of systemd in there as well. The device is there, yet systemd times out “waiting for device”. How come then a manual mount -a in the rescue shell works then?
If course, the bug had already been reported and swiftly rejected by L. “Hurr durr bother your distributor not me” Pottering.
When you’re not using your computer
What a wild concept
If you have to ask, then there’s no reason not to. It’s people who tinker with their systems that encounter issues with it, or more often random annoyances that add up over tme to those memes.
When you want to feel special but not enough to go to the effort of using FreeBSD
Nobody wants to be like those “special needs” users.
I already am special enough, my mom said so
Artix with openrc
what is that little pixel cat at the top? It also appears on https://katia.ripe.net/ is it referencing something?
It might be this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
- A port to JavaScript named Oneko.js is used on various personal websites. [7]
That’s awesome; I knew I’d seen it around!
Oh, I just use this app called ANeko. Here’s the f-droid link.
It makes a cat run on my screen all day. It was there when I took this screenshot.
Void, because it works really well on my super low-resource chromebook!
any advice for trying void? Ive heard good things but never really gave it a chance.
The handbook is outstanding. Read as much of it as you can. Even if you’re not a Void user, you’ll learn so much!
The gui installer was roughly about as simple as any other distro I’ve tried, and stuff generally seemed to work out of the box. There are more packages than one might expect from such a small distro too. Not sure I have any advice specific to Void really, although getting a custom bootloader onto a Chromebook was certainly a trip lol
I love cheap Chromebooks for this!! Getting custom bootloader onto them is kinda fun for me atp because I’ve done so many.
Probably Artix, because it’s like Arch, and I use Arch btw
There is an openrc package in aur, so perhaps arch can use non-systemd init as well.
Would probably be a hell to actually implement, as everything is made for systemd (as in, all packages rely on systemd for being run)
Arch can absolutely use other init systems though it is officially unsupported
Alpine.
Have used crux but using low end / old hardware results in almost permanent building software.
I wonder how far we are from CI drivers ala Nix that fork builds out to idle hardware like a distributed torrent network. As someone with three out of tree modules in use, there must be dozens of us I’d like to think.
That is something I’ve already run into at my previous workplace. The name escapes me atm…
Guix
Defintely this, it’s also the best option to run Fediverse instances such as Bonfire https://fishinthecalculator.me/blog/bonfire--guix-a-love-story.html
catpropagandaPalmOS. So simplistic yet powerful. I miss those old PDAs :(
There was a lack of sinisterness to the PalmOS ecosystem that we’ve lost.
Sinisterness?
I may have phrased that in a strange double negative way.
Modern mobile platforms like Android and iOS are sinister in a way that PalmOS wasn’t. PalmOS, becasue the devices weren’t connected to the internet much if at all, didn’t have the big brother always watching and trying to come up with new ways to exploit the user as is standard today.
Void Linux, although I use NixOS nowadays.
Lot’s of Systemd apologists, barely one answer to the question.
It’s really annoying. It no different from people who go into Linux forums and talk about how much they love Windows.
It is almost like most people either couldn’t care about systemd or like it.
Why are you bring up this dead controversy? It was settled a long time ago.
systemdis fine. The only people I’ve ever heard complain about it are lonely neckbeards pretending like their opinion somehow matters.I’ve used Debian as a server system since it was using
init.d. And do you know what I found?systemdis easier. And the fact that Debian of all distros decided to use it says a lot.There are other init systems.
It says that you barely can have Systemd and alternatives in the same repo without shims and patches.
That wasn’t the question though.
No its a valid discussion.
I misread and wondered when did systemd release cat as in the software not the animal.
macOS. I find it to be the least inconvenient for most of my needs.
They use the spiritual predecessor of systemd, launchd, so I’m not sure if this counts.
Unpopular opinion but I respect it
Forced to use macOS at work, and for me it sucks (only slightly less than Windows):
- Slow UI (have to wait several seconds after login before spotlight is able to execute custom scripts)
- Finder is a PITA and one of the dumbest file managers I was ever forced to use
- No easy way to provision the system
- Annoying nagging to use all the Apple services/login with Apple ID
- Shitty software management (instead of a descent package manager, every fucking application has a popup for its own updates after opening, which breaks my flow)
- macOS only interacts decently with other Apple devices (iPhone etc.) and has its own ‘standards’, taking away my freedom to choose what I want to use.
Of course, your needs are your needs and if macOS fits your needs the best, all power to you.
Those seem like reasonable points, I think.
I don’t use any other Apple devices, so I have no opinion on that. And I don’t often find myself provisioning macOS, but I use Nix to manage my system, so transferring to a new MacBook has been pretty easy for me.
I tend to do a lot of Linux-ey things, and macOS (Unix-based) is much closer to that than Windows is. Also, I often see programming languages/runtimes that require extra/different steps to get up and running in Windows vs. Linux and macOS.
Sure, Windows has WSL, but every time I’ve needed to do some IO-heavy operations with it, it was extremely slow. (Though it has been a few years, so maybe it’s better now?)
I also do a lot of web dev, so macOS offers a few more tools. If Safari wasn’t so terrible, then macOS would become less necessary. But AFAIK (I haven’t checked in a while), macOS is the only environment that can run Safari in an iOS emulator.
My second choice would be NixOS… or maybe Ubuntu.
Windows seems a bit bloated to me. I remember seeing something in the Start menu about X-Box, and I couldn’t uninstall it, for some reason. I could remove the icon from the menu, but it still linked to some binary that was installed with the OS. I’m not a gamer, why do I need that on my system? Also, why did I have to uncheck so many data harvesting options during setup? I’m not very comfortable with things like that being built in to the OS, and enabled by default. I remember a time when things like that were commonly known as “spyware” – I guess it’s just normalized now. (To be fair, I’m not a fan of having to decline Apple Intelligence multiple times on macOS either.)
Same here. Got a MacBook from work, it launches a browser, it’s almost all I need.
Add android to the mix.
