Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS for
To   : Accession
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Feb 16 2025 10:35:29

-=> Accession wrote to Arelor <=-


 Ac> Huh. I had no idea any of that was going on. However, I do remember
 Ac> Debian being one of the first to switch to systemd fully, just didn't
 Ac> know it became a political thing (I guess the better question is, what
 Ac> _doesn't_ become political these days?). Thanks for the explanation!

I never saw what the deal was with systemd. I came from the BSDs and
rc files, init.d and systemd seemed similar by comparison.

 Ac> There's the few that have always been 'windowsized', but most have kept
 Ac> a pretty basic install (netboot, non-gui, whatever you want to call
 Ac> it). They leave it up to the user to add all the frill they want to it,
 Ac> and most users want the frill. You can argue that till your face turns
 Ac> blue, but that's honestly the only reason Linux has gained (albeit not
 Ac> very much) the traction it has over the years. Otherwise, people would
 Ac> still *only* be using Linux as servers, to this day.

Yeah, Ubuntu, probably one of the most desktop/window-focused distros
out there, still had a server distro - and others have the ability to
select servers and deselect any window manager.

I still like having a low-end window manager to be able to have multiple
xterms running...

 > I am not a Devuan fan, exactly, but I can use it as a drop-in
 > replacement for most tasks I would have used Debian in the past and
 > its default configuration comes with a bit less overhead. And with no
 > systemd.


I thought devuan was just a non-GPL free version of Debian? Or was that
Trisquel?

 
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