Post #1171769

2026-03-19 20:26 UTC

@usernameswift@labyrinth.zone probably gonna be switching to a systemd-less distro this weekend, most likely just gonna pick devuan but I'm open to suggestions I guess -w- Edit: oh right, alpine linux exists :neodog_think:

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@kingsleybugarin@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-20 00:59

@witix I switched from Centos 6.10 to PCLinuxOS nearly two years ago. It is systemd free and does everything I need including running steam. It is a rolling distro that uses the debian package manager with rpm packages. It can be a little behind in software releases but so far it has been rock solid.

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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2026-03-19 21:01

@witix @usernameswift There's also @VoidLinux However, be advised that due to their packaging philosophy of "just ship reasonably up to date versions of upstream" as a corollary implies, that if some projects (say Vim, for example) decides to slop, then the packages shipped in the default repos will be sloppy, too. Maybe it's time to introduce a nonslop repository, or better yet, put all sloppy projects into a sloppy repository.

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