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What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd? (discuss.tchncs.de)
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systemd cat and GNU cat hugging a Linux cat.

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[-] Tillman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Open or Free BSD.

[-] piefood@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

FreeBSD! It's so simple, and so reliable

[-] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Alpine

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

OpenBSD

[-] neox_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

GNU Guix System, using GNU Shepherd as init. It does its job quite well.

[-] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

How is Guix? I run NixOS right now, and I didn't find Guix until like right after I invested all the time and effort to learn Nix. I kind of want to switch, but I also don't really want to abandon Nix right after I learned it.

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[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Normie here, what's wrong with systemd?

[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Nothing, it's just bloated but in practice if your system meets normal distros system requirements systemd isn't going to make that much of a difference in practical use.

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[-] videodrome@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

MX Linux of course

[-] r_deckard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

OS400 (IBM i)

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

OS/2

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

MacOS. I use Linux for servers, Mac for daily driver. Windows for zilch, only at my job because I have to.

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[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago

cat propaganda

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Nintendo 3DS

[-] the_wiz@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Well, for me personally this would be EmuTOS

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

In terms of Linux, either Devuan sysvinit, Void, or Alpine.

I am also a fan of BSD.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Kolibri, which only needs a handful of RAM and disk space

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My favorite is Debian, with systemd uninstalled. At this point, you can't install Debian without systemd, but you can uninstall systemd after OS installation.

It used to be that most desktop environments in Debian depended on libpam-systemd, which depended on systemd and systemd-sysv. More recently, desktop environments just depend on libpam-elogind and elogind which is only part of systemd, and allows you to use sysvinit.

I prefer sysvinit mainly because I find it easier to create custom services out of my own programs. My success rate at doing this in systemd is 1/3, and in sysvinit about 10/10.

I also had a problem where a Debian-based embedded system had some kind of broken NTP client running on startup, and due to systemd, I couldn't figure out how to disable it. It would set the time to several years into the future, as soon as it first got a network connection on each startup.

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