WHen I provisioned a mid-range dedicated box recently, I went FreeBSD almost entirely so as to not have to touch or deal with anything related to systemd, the worst the thing to ever happen to linux.
WHen I provisioned a mid-range dedicated box recently, I went FreeBSD almost entirely so as to not have to touch or deal with anything related to systemd, the worst the thing to ever happen to linux.
The problem with systemd is the scale. Some of it is fine, some of it is actually quite good. But other areas are just replacing existing systems with things worse for the majority of traditional users. Logging, time and dns come to mind.
systemd-boot ia actually one of the rare components that are pleasant to work with.
Gentoo also has a systemd-free option (and even if it didn't, you could make one because Gentoo is basically LinuxFromScratch)
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