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    What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd? (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 2 days ago by nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    systemd cat and GNU cat hugging a Linux cat.

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    [–] banazir@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    postmarketOS, though they are in the process of migrating to systemd. Not that I personally mind terribly much, even if it feels like a bit of an odd choice. So maybe I should say Alpine.

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    [–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    what is that little pixel cat at the top? It also appears on https://katia.ripe.net/ is it referencing something?

    [–] shoki@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    It might be this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

    • A port to JavaScript named Oneko.js is used on various personal websites. [7]
    [–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 2 days ago

    That's awesome; I knew I'd seen it around!

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    [–] serenissi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    There are few system manager (single project or a mix of components) that use linux features efficiently and none have dev resource remotely comparable to systemd. That's why in practice systemd is the best system layer implementation on gnu/linux. Android and chromeos userland (upstart derived) are not exactly (freedesktop) gnu/linux.

    EDIT: the post ask which OS though. Including userland I like android a lot, but I would say illumos distros (OI currently). illumos has a system management similar to systemd (contracts in place of cgroups for example). Actually systemd was heavily inspired by SMF too.

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago

    cat propaganda

    [–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    macOS. I find it to be the least inconvenient for most of my needs.

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    [–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    OS400 (IBM i)

    [–] ParadeDuGrotesque@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    It's either Slackware (Linux, no systemd), OpenBSD or NetBSD.

    True story: I install a Red Hat server with a disk shelf with about 12 SAS disk in it. Red Hat has systemd. Everything works fine for a month.

    One (1) disk out of the 12 fails. No biggie. Shutdown the server cleanly. Replace disk. Flip power back on. Rebuild disk config. Simple, right?

    Wrong. You see, systemd is unhappy. It detects a new disk. It has lost a previous disk. And so, it refuses to boot. Period.

    Yes, there are ways out of this. But that was the day I decided systemd was the down of the devil.

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    [–] videodrome@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

    MX Linux of course

    [–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

    OS/2

    [–] LordTE7R1S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

    Slackware linux

    [–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    🤔Windows 🤣

    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

    Artix has the most amount of alternative init systems available.

    I would recommend Devuan, but it just wraps SysV in runit as a service manager rather than just using runit as init.

    Gentoo has options for systemd or openrc. You can get runit or s6 to work on it if you're pretty familiar with how /sbin/init works,or so I've ascertained from researching, but have not done this yet.

    Void is very interesting as it uses runit and also uses musl instead of glibc. I don't think it has quite as many packages as Artix though due to lack of AUR, and I can only estimate that the use of musl instead of glibc necessitates the need for some interesting workarounds from time to time.

    I use Artix with runit. Have been daily driving this for around 6 years now and have been very happy with it.

    If I were to use anything else I'd go through the trouble of installing Gentoo and configure it to use s6 init. Just to get more granular control.

    [–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

    Alpine

    [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    MacOS. I use Linux for servers, Mac for daily driver. Windows for zilch, only at my job because I have to.

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    [–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Alpine. It’s very lightweight.

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    [–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

    OPNSense.

    Now that Windows qualifies under the prompt, not that I'd pick it but it's just funny that it is.

    [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

    Probably PalmOS.

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