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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Guaranteed absence of flatpak will be a motivation for some to choose a non-systemd distro

[–] phx@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Flatpak has been pretty optional on most distros I've used. Snap on the other hand...

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

apt install firefox

Look inside: snapd installed

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

One of the reasons I've been avoiding or actively moving off Ubuntu these days. The snap ecosystem is bloated AF

I've lived without Flatpak for over 20 years. I'm not worried.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Omw to switch my arch to a selfwritten init manager /s

[–] mech@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

Just boot into kernel command line and start your services manually.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

Probably, yeah. I'd start in C and realize I do actually like C++ concepts and styles too much to continue in C.