linux no-systemd minimalism
Convenience and pop-whores … it is what capitalism prescribes. Add games, bookmarks on Edge, saved passwords, that people don’t want to change … and this is the disability they develop. Then win gets all borked BSOD and all, and they start the only way they know how, disk, format, new install.
They buy their own prison cells and the camera that monitors them like they live in a reality show.
What did you expect, a social revolution?
BSA ITA French/Swiss PF30 octa/isis I do them all.
I switched gearbox and driveshaft on a heavy van stuck on 20’ incline 5m away from a wall. Early 70s Dodge. Scary getting under there.
I use runit and/or s6 as init and service supevisor, no logind, no dbus, just a window manager. I have one disguised as MSwin, my friend hasn’t noticed in 7y it is not MSw. She says it is as good now as it was the day I installed it.
MS paid technical support is very simple.
- Xyz doesn’t work
- Please insert install disk and reinstall windows.
- But …
- I am sorry but this is the only way we can insure a good working system
If you don’t mind sharing all your private data with multinational corporations and state agencies then you have no better choice than paying MS to provide you with a dummy terminal to their affiliated data-miners.
Stop being elitist, spread Linux without systemd!
I have used labwc (a really close equivalent to openbox) with great excitement with the exception of one thing.
Running a graphic application as a different user within a user’s session is impossible. Even if a different seatd session is active for the 2nd user, wlroots refuses to draw anything as a different user than the one initiating the session.
It is a form of containerization for me that just requires x11
You forgot to mention the glibc/syslog backdoor discovered
… not if you took a blue pill overdose …
DE require tremendous overhead of serv/daemons just to be able to make shortcuts/menu items clickable, I would never use such contraptions on my system.
I use a wm and have no use for polkit, dbus, logind, automount, obfuscated rights elevations and demotions, … all this crap that unnecessarily must run for the sake of aesthetics and MS-win utility.
If I needed icons on my background I would use just a light filemanager, like pcmanfm, but I don’t.
Both plasma and gnome will get zero clicks from me. They are the two black holes sucking free open source software into their m{ac,s}-win core.
username: dummy-terminal
hostname: redfart.com
I know some who do it as a spare time relaxation exercise, install something new (to them) configure, boot, reconfigure, explore. But they have a steady system they use daily.
@ashley ubuntu is, yes, a pseudo distribution with funky installer, fonts, themes, mix of non-free software, appealing to those who just want a cheap system without the will to learn much.
I like how a system instead of specs is described with marketing terminology, “light, simplicity in mind” and this with ubuntu and systemd under the hood.
Alpine is light with simplicity in mind, anything that contains -buntu in its description is like a 1960s bus
You mean tearing?
As in video screen tearing?
There is also tar which is a very common archiving system, so tarring=archiving
Stay away from debian/ubuntu if you really want to learn linux. They dictate how you do things so much you will never learn how to do it.
tiny core is for small embeded systems, like car ignitions, modems, little robotics modules/arduinos etc.
They were always IBM’s front for open/free code and the undermine of linux. Grew economically more than any Op.Fr. project because of IBM’s consulting and training subcontracts passed under the table. Eventually they were absorbed by their mothership.
You or off a thread guys, which distro are you talking about?
grep sda /etc/mtab 2>&1 tee /tmp/tab.txt | yad --title=“output” \ --width=154 --text=“$(cat /tmp/tab.txt)”
Not MS but IBM, created a front 13y ago called RedHat, financed it with consulting subcontracts installing RHEL,Fedora,Debian everywhere, to steer all Desktop/GUI development to depend on it, and when it all met its goals bought it to create its mass consumed system to compete with MS.
Very few attempt to maintain desktop functionality without systemd today, and upstreamers just quitely conformed to the "market’.
@jackpot @octopus_ink