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Flatpak’s Future May Leave Non-systemd Distros Behind (linuxiac.com)
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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

NixOS is the only thing that made systemd a reasonable tool for me.

I do not like the entire paradigm of how it works.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I love NixOS, but I hate how coupled to systemd it is.

I tried to make a microVM image of NixOS the other day, using tini as the init system. Large parts of the core NixOS lifecycle simply don’t work at all without systemd.

[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Another poster mentioned this. Here’s Finix: https://github.com/finix-community/finix

And here’s Sixos: https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/sixos

They both replace systemd. Both very interesting projects. Finix is reportedly daily-drivable but I’d steer clear of SixOS for anything but learning about alternative init systems. The talk linked from the repo is mind-altering; This SixOS guy is utterly brilliant.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago

Guix is your friend with an infinitely better language

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe Guix or Finix?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah hell, I keep seeing recommendations for Guix. I guess I’ll have to try it out soon.

It would be hilarious though, because in addition to wanting to get off of systemd I would like to try getting off of glibc. If the answer to “no systemd” is “more GNU”, that would be poetic.