Peppermint OS, one of the most lightweight and flexible Linux distros, is now offering a Devuan-based ISO for advanced users to have more control over their system. With their release of Peppermint OS 11, they dropped using Ubuntu as the base for Debian to make Peppermint OS more stable and
  • @[email protected]
    0•2 years ago

    To me it’s not about systemd being bad, just a case of it being hella complicated if compared to something like runit. Its reach is so huge it’s overwhelming for my poor brain to grasp.

    It’s not you, it’s me kind of a deal haha

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        Usage.

        Been a while since I last messed with it and my Linux skills (damn that sounds corny) have improved over the years. But when I used to drive a systemd distro there would be some service that would stall and I just could not make it work as intended, remembering my frustrations.

        • @[email protected]
          2•2 years ago

          some service that would stall and I just could not make it work as intended

          I currently have some 2 user services for GUI apps always failing even though I added the graphical dependency services. Dependencies are prob the issue, and/or some issue NixOS config -> systemd.

          How has been your runit experience in comparison? s6 looks interesting

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            How has been your runit experience in comparison? s6 looks interesting

            It’s dumb, rather silly in comparison and it does nothing other than keeping services going - on Void Linux you symlink your services from /etc/sv/{service-name} to /var/services/ and there it goes off doing its thing.

            https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html#basic-usage

            Systemd could probably provide some fancy features on my system but it’s a simple procrastination-station and so far I’ve not come up with anything I’m missing. Very happy camper.

            (Lemmy is acting up for me)