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Ive been runing Debian 12 (kde) since bookworm was released and am loving it.

I have recently discovered Devuan which seems to be Debian without systemd - what is the benefit of removing this init system?

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[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

what you just wrote doesn't seem to contradict what you quoted in any way. even if there haven't been any people in the past decade who decided they prefer avoiding systemd (unlikely), there's still that vocal minority of linux users that you yourself acknowledge, so idk why you're posturing like you're in a disagreement?

edit: a typo

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[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago

The contradiction is in the claim that the vocal minority is significant. One could argue that the lack of mainstream distros not using systemd is an indicator of the lack of a significant population against it.

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[–] hunger@programming.dev -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

There is no significant section. It is just a few people telling each other the same old conspiracy stories over and over again.

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[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

ooh, conspiracy stories? do tell, if you'd like. i've never seen conspiracy stuff in this debate, but conspiracy theories are a cognitive failure mode that fascinate me.

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[–] hunger@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago

Check out the devuan mailing lists then:-)

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