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The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren’t necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days (“surge” because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won’t be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

    • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      2 days ago

      https://nosystemd.org/

      They can be a bit overemotional about systemd’s issues, but their list of init systems and distros is rather exhaustive

      It’s all nerdy stuff, usually installed via CLI. I think Devuan is the most user friendly, at least it has an installer

      I’ve used Void, Devuan, Chimera and Guix. They’re all cool, and I did learn interesting things as a developer, but I wouldn’t advise switching to one of those distros just for the current drama. Wait until it actually gets bad, there will hopefully be user-friendly distros to address the situation.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        https://nosystemd.org/

        https://without-systemd.org/ too.

        And there’s MX and AntiX too, if wanting something like Debian/Ubuntu but with init-freedom.

        And several other Devuan respins.

        Or even PCLinuxOS. While it uses rpm package format, it uses apt as its package manager, so you don’t even need to learn a new package manager. And of course, no systemd.

        Dozens more options too.

        Wait until it actually gets bad, there will hopefully be user-friendly distros to address the situation.

        No need to wait past tipping points where harm is done. There have always been easy options. At least in all 22.5 years I’ve been using Linux. That never stopped. Just a corporation and its eager stooges perpetrated a psyop to mislead people into thinking systemd was the one true way. It’s not. It never was. That was marketing lies.

        Init-freedom ftw. :) Choice is good. Clean code is good. Maintainable and easily forkable code is good. UNIX philosophy is good (esp. “do one thing, well”). KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is good.

        While systemd may be free software in name/license only, in practice, it’s abusive. Social rot. Brain rot. Not good. Avoid.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Ah, well. I don’t think I’ll be changing my distro from Arch unless this becomes a real issue for me. Thanks for the recommendation though.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      If you want something more featureful, OpenRC is decent.

      I usually use runit, which is much more lightweight, which I like.

      You can try out distros with different inits in VMs and see what you like. Or if you’re the distro-hopping kind, just distro-hop.