4 Oct
2021
4 Oct
'21
2:55 p.m.
On Sunday 03 October 2021 10:59:25 pm Felix Miata wrote:
IMO: Rethink your aversion to systemd. Eventually you'll run into software
you simply cannot use because it depends on some part of the growing
systemd monolith. All the major distros have switched to systemd. Those
that don't are increasingly relying on kludges and a growing amount of
forking upstream to keep going.
If you expect to live more than 10 more years, you might as well go
mainstream sooner than later.
The irony of your arguments Felix is it is the same argument KDE4 people made
to those who switched to TDE. Especially the, “If you expect to live more
than 10 more years,” since TDE recently celebrated its 10 year birthday…
Systemd created a major, aka lifelong, schism in the Linux community (to get
faster boot times ffs).
Steve, if you’re worried about needing systemd for some potential future
software, then use MX Linux, it has a systemd shim, so most (probably all
really) systemd software runs on it. It also has:
- 1 click install off of a Live USB
- MX Package Manager (MXPI) that allows for 1 click installs of almost 400
different popular software environments like Zoom, Steam, full LAMP stack,
VirtualBox, etc.
- 20+ developers and 20,000+ users
Pick whatever you want, TDE (and the dev’s and users) will be here for you.
Best,
Michael