• TheTechnician27
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    174 days ago

    So going off the chalice in the movie, the distro that will save you from judgment is the plainest one – the one with the least bloat? That tracks.

    • @Telodzrum
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      64 days ago

      Is this going to be Arch or Debian?

      • @marlowe221
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        74 days ago

        That’s just what I was going to say - that will either be Arch or Debian…

      • @barsquid
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        54 days ago

        More like Alpine or something else without systemd. I mean no shade (well, a bit of shade) since I’ve got Fedora myself. Alpine doesn’t even have glibc IIRC.

        • @Telodzrum
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          64 days ago

          In 2024, having systemd is less complicated than not having it.

          • @barsquid
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            54 days ago

            I think it is breaking the Unix philosophy, it is an enormous piece of code that does so many different things. My ideal is smaller components with smaller dependencies. When distros or software becomes inextricably dependent on systemd they are then beholden to whichever direction the maintainers take it.

            My take on it is somewhat based on “what if.” Other people have some pragmatic discussions on security aspects if you search around.

            • Zaemz
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              23 days ago

              I’m not a systemd guru, but I do find it relatively easy to work with.

              I’ve noticed that a lot of it is actually made up of separate binaries and daemons. Is it wrong or misleading to think of systemd as a collection of utilities that share a common DSL as opposed to a strict monolith?

        • @[email protected]
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          14 days ago

          Musl can be a bit annoying compilation target sometimes. Usually it works but I’ve debugged bugs a few times that were due to musl target.

          I prefer my distro with glibc…