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Sweet! If and when Arch implements age verification, Artix is where I'm seeking asylum.
A question: I have a fair understanding of Linux - been using it for five years - but only with systemd. Is it hard to transition to other init solutions? Is one better than the others? What about sysVinit?
Its a learning curve for sure, I'm still learning it myself. Openrc seemed to be fairly popular, so thats why I started with that.
There is a few changes such as not using service files and instead using crob jobs, seeing the logs of your tasks need to be hooked into using syslog-ng to consolidate the logs. I'm still learning how you see stuff like the service status etc.
Its been fun learning something new again, and writing a script like this to set it all up for me has been a great way to learn it all.
Btw, s6 (runit too?) supports user services and for dinit exists turnstile.
Well then, that sounds great, because I love tinkering and learning new stuff. :)
I do recall using some minor distro - perhaps antiX - a long time ago to save a broken laptop. I did do
init [some number between 0-5]to manipulate the system's power state, I think. That's my experience with it haha.