• golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Off only the top of my head.

    -Potentially faster installation

    -Free

    -More control

    -Many distributions from LinuxFromScratch to Mint, making it meet the interests of nearly every demographic

    -Wonderful sense of community

    -No spying

    -No bloatware depending on distro

    -No ads

    -Many window managers supporting different workflows

    -Incredible command line power

    -Easy installation of software with package managers

    -Less malware

    -Fully customizeable ux/ui

    -Can uninstall anything you don’t want

    -Will help you learn how a computer works at a deeper level if you want to

    • rhabarba@feddit.org
      0·
      8 days ago

      -No spying

      depending on the distro

      -No ads

      depending on the distro

      -Can uninstall anything you don’t want

      How can you uninstall systemd?

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        It will differ by distro, but generally for debian, you begin uninstalling systemd by installing something else like SysV init:

        apt install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
cp /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab

        Then you will need to configure grub by editing /etc/default/grub changing:

        GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/bin/systemd console=hvc0 console=ttyS0"

        to

        GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/lib/sysvinit/init console=hvc0 console=ttyS0"

        and then executing update-grub as root.

        Then you can reboot so that the system boots off of sysvinit instead and then purge systemd with apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd. This also removes packages that depend on systemd.

        Then you pin systemd packages to prevent apt from installing systemd or systemd-like packages in the future.

        echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd
echo -e '\n\nPackage: *systemd*\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

        Depending on if the distro is multiarch, you might also need:

        echo -e '\nPackage: systemd:amd64\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd
echo -e '\nPackage: systemd:i386\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

        This information was sourced from this wiki dedicated specifically to removing systemd on multiple distributions and replacing it with something else:

        https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/