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Does anyone actually use Gentoo? Why?
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And it was one of the few distros who supports running without systemd. I do need the freedom to use whichever init system I prefer. Some let me do it with just a few lines of configs, some leave their system open enough to work with other init systems, and some are so hard-coded to allow only systemd, and fuck those, BTW.
There is more to the process life cycle than just init. Systemd is not an init system.