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What distro(s) do you use? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by owatnext@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see your point. It is probably inevitable that malware will target the most common piece of software you will find.

After using 2 years runit on Void and 2 years OpenRC on Gentoo I eventually made the switch to systemd-based distros when I realised on my server how powerful journalctl and systemd services were for managing and debugging a long running service. Also user services and timers are so much more powerful and error prone than cron jobs or starting services from shell scripts. Don't want to invalidate your point, we just have different requirements :D

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Over the last 2 days I have tried installing both Artix Openrc and Arch with systemd. Both times something was broken with the OS, although I'm not sure if it was just a skill issue on my end or not. However, reinstalling Artix Runit was pretty much seamless. I now think I may be cursed and that I'm now bound to that OS for all of enternity...

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least it is a somewhat reasonable OS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost contemplated installing Debian LTS as a guaranteed to work OS...

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you got Artix+runit running, why bother ^^

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I only considered it in case I didn't get it to work