I notice a lot of talk about distros without systemd at the moment. But is there a guarantee that the alternative init projects wouldn’t also add this “feature”?
Honestly, they seem a lot less shitty culturally in general (less take-over-the-world-y). It’s not a guarantee, of course, but they’re probably less likely to do that.
Also (and perhaps more importantly), once you’re on any alternative init, you can move between init systems pretty easily (though you may have to rewrite any custom scripts you wrote, sysvinit scripts should be compatible with everything). It’s just the init system you’re swapping out, and not all sorts of random system stuff like systemd’s got its tentacles into.
We use OpenRC on stock Debian. It actually works pretty well, and I’m REALLY hoping it stays that way.
I notice a lot of talk about distros without systemd at the moment. But is there a guarantee that the alternative init projects wouldn’t also add this “feature”?
Honestly, they seem a lot less shitty culturally in general (less take-over-the-world-y). It’s not a guarantee, of course, but they’re probably less likely to do that.
Also (and perhaps more importantly), once you’re on any alternative init, you can move between init systems pretty easily (though you may have to rewrite any custom scripts you wrote, sysvinit scripts should be compatible with everything). It’s just the init system you’re swapping out, and not all sorts of random system stuff like systemd’s got its tentacles into.
We use OpenRC on stock Debian. It actually works pretty well, and I’m REALLY hoping it stays that way.
– Frost