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People who use distros without systemd, why do you do this? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Gentoo comes with OpenRC as default so I roll with it. And it's simple and it works.

Plus the idea of having to randomly wait for some obscure stuff to block for a minute the boot/shutdown is not my thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The cool thing with Gentoo is that you can just decide one day to switch to systemd and it's about as easy as changing your profile and updating your system (and maybe recompiling your kernel)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You have to compile everything though, even from a stage 2 installation. I haven't attempted one for like 15 years, but I imagine it's still not quick.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dafuq?

That goes against everything I know about Gentoo....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are also shipping x86-64 v3 packages. Something that on arch you still rely on 3rd party repos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

or you can use cachyos. running V3 packages on vanilla arch makes it more prone to breakage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not too bad. I very rarely recompile everything from scratch and after I do that I just create a snapshot with btrfs. Are usually then chroot into that snapshot and compile everything natively overnight for that 5% Theoretical performance boost.

Most recently I took that snapshot and then used btrfs send to adapt it to a laptop as well and that worked quite well actually.

Everything I install is typically through flatpack or distro box just like silver blue. This means install times are pretty much okay but I have a huge amount of flexibility in the way the system works

Also heaps of binary packages as well, so that’s not too bad. The binary packages much slower than both arch and Alpine but not a lot slower than for example Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I just skip all of that and go with the next best thing, Arch 😉