Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I’ve been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I’m surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.

https://nosystemd.org/.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 day ago

    Advanced Distro-hopper over here: I am actually fine with cachyOS. If I want to leave systemd, only good alternative I found is artix. Someone tried their new stable release of 2026? Arch + openrc + Wayland + pipewire + KDE would be my usecase.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      15 hours ago

      Funnily enough OpenRC is probably the slowest of the inits offered by Artix. The current best in both features and stability are Dinit and s6. Dinit is far more user friendly. Both boot ~20% faster than the others, and much faster than systemd. Generally though, simplicity without expense to features is what Dinit and s6+66 excel at.

      Gentoo wiki page comparing inits: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems

      From the Dinit developer: https://github.com/davmac314/dinit/blob/master/doc/COMPARISON

    • arsCynic@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Arch [Artix] + openrc + Wayland + pipewire + KDE would be my usecase.

      That’s exactly what I’m using. Other than a few tweaks here and there, no complaints so far. Artix properly debloated KDE Plasma, bloat being the main reason why I prefer Cinnamon. Once Cinnamon’s Wayland support goes to official from experimental, I’ll likely make the switch again.

      • Samsy@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 day ago

        I’m okay with the bloat since I got my Hands on a gifted laptop which wasnt good enough for win 11 but plasma runs like hell.

        Looks like I try the qt-community Version. Thx.