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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

MX, antiX and Gentoo are the only distros that support a non systemd init system without making a big deal about it like its normal to have a different choice as a linux user

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Lmao, they call it bonsai form for being cut down in size.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 5 points 7 months ago*

    I think I had used fluxbox once. I see that it was a fork of Blackbox originally. Is fluxbox more feature rich now than Blackbox? (I am assuming former would be more popular than it's original fork now ).

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Good read. Although I recently moved to void Linux as I prefer rolling release instead of a major upgrade every few years.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I also am on Void since past couple of years. Paired it with LxQt DE for sometime. I didn't have much opinion (or even cared) about systemd (which Void eschews in favor of runit) when I chose it in my distro hopping days. It's lean and clean though package repos slightly smaller than competing ones.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I had a very good ride with Void for 3 years, a polished distro which taught me to play with init.

    But a lot of GNU packages are not packaged, and lastly I saw a news regarding the distro being split between pro and free version so ...

    I used Antix after that, but AntiX can really get behind on package and kernel version, so I stumbled back on Devuan, and voilà ! With backport, Devuan is really like Debian without the hassle of never knowing if your system us really shut down when you close your laptop (systemd ! 🫵)

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    There isn't a pro version, that was the April fools joke of last year

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Again, April fools joke. Check the date and also, if you go to the link of "enterprised images" provided, the images are the normal ones

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Ah ha ! Well it was a stupid joke then 😅 my first grievance is still about not packaging GNU software though (exim, mailutils, just on top of my head but etc.)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    You still get "major releases" with rolling distros. They're just smaller. Updating to new plasma/gnome versions, new glibc, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    i should have been clearer, there is no distro major release. packages have major release sure, but no large distro upgrade.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I just realized now that there is antiX and Artix. I thought they were the same thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    Used it once on a laptop whose fan had died and which I in retrospect shouldn't have used no matter how little I tax the CPU, but, it worked. antiX at least let me boot up, save my data and then discard the laptop.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I love all the systemd hate haha

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