So I, like probably a fair chunk of you, have always felt like systemd was forced onto me. I did not ask for a new init system. Systemd in may ways is doing more than what an init system should do. In some ways that's great but an init system should just init. I was finding myself getting used to it after the last few years(had avoided it till then). Probably partly due to the fact that it EVERYWHERE. I was actually starting to like it even. I finally had enough and woke up.

Yesterday I read an article about the systemd devs trying to force a change on the linux kernel because they did not want to change how systemd worked. Now it turns out that this article was like 6 years old but still it highlighted the fact that systemd is trying to be more than what it is. Kernel is king! Everything else comes after.

So this morning I migrated from Arch Linux to Artix Linux. It was fairly smooth other than a few issues related to having root on encrypted partition but those where mostly my doing in trying to go too quickly. No format/reinstall and no more systemd!

My views may be ill explained but that's it for this post.

Have a great day

G

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Until next time. Stay safe!

G @mgrondin@youdabomb.social