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I'd just like to interject for a moment

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, systemd/GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, systemd plus GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and systemd utilities comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.


GNU and Linux are just small parts of overall systemd operating system


I just recently learned how much problematic systemd is:

  • It tries to do way too much for an init system, which is against the Unix philosophy.
  • As it does too many things, its code base is more than 1 million line long, which in turn leads to some more problems:
  • It has some security concerns.
  • It has poor cross-platform compatibility.

Trying to do too many things make it worse.

I currently don’t find time and energy and enough incentive to switch my whole system to something else, but if that sounds like a dealbreaker for you, find a non-systemd distribution, you can find one in this following website: https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/135/

By the way, Alpine Linux is a super lightweight distribution that is neither GNU nor systemd.

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