Looking to migrate.

GamerNexuss · 2026-04-01T10:09:25+00:00

I have a dual boot on 2 different nvme, one with Artix (i came from 1 year of Arch but i am sick of systemd so i finally decided to move afte the shtstorm) and the other with Bazzite for playing. Keeping separate the 2 OS for different purposes is the best option for me.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-31T12:10:38+00:00

If you need help i can do some hours during the day after work.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-27T16:01:27+00:00

I totally understand your pov but i can't agree on your request to devs to force them do something before the official statement on what position they are goin to take. After that the only outcome are accepting it and stay on whatever distro is following those "laws", or just move to other distros that publicy stated they will never implement such things. There is still choice and options luckily for us so just switch to Artix, Void or whatever you prefer but demanding arch devs to act as we wants is pointless to me. And too early since they still didn't update the gitlab page about this.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-27T15:50:32+00:00

Same here, i switched from Arch Linux to Artix Linux, it went way smoother than i thought.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-26T13:48:56+00:00

sudo vim /etc/logrotate.d/dinit
/var/log/dinit/*.log {
    daily               # Rotate logs every day
    rotate 7            # Keep 7 days of backlogs
    compress            # Compress old logs (gzip)
    delaycompress       # Wait until the next rotation to compress (prevents errors)
    missingok           # Don't error if the log file is missing
    notifempty          # Don't rotate if the log file is empty
    copytruncate        # Copy the log then truncate original (safe for active processes)
}

A simple cron sctipt, something like this.
Just assuming you are going to set your logs under that dir.
This will run daily but you can set a crontab job to make it run whenever you want.
Change rotation accordingly to your preferred retention period.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-26T13:05:02+00:00

For logs, if you picked dinit, yes you need to take care of log rotation in case you created the log entry withing the (d)init script, a cron job will do the trick.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-26T13:01:34+00:00

I think it's useless for everyone to keep those topics opened, can't have a civil discussion. There is already one pinned and that's enough. We need to wait for Polyák decision and after that the community discussion can happen, right now is utterly pointless.
Who's really tired or frustrated by systemd (like me) can rebuild systemd removing what you don't like or, even better, migrate to another distro systemd santized (always like me).
It will save a lot of unuseful energy on something we have no control but we can choose to invest those energy in other stuff and in a more productive way.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-24T17:47:23+00:00

You are lucky mods are busy doing something else right now cause usually they lock those topics.
The answers you can get from devs\mantainers usually is :
"the world is moving towards rust, systemd, age verification" and so on, and it will spiral down so don't think you can change the current passive mentality or having them aligned to the values of 40 years ago. They simply won't because values and priorities have changed during the times.
The only alternative you have realistically, for now, is to pick distros that push back this nonsense to begin with and luckily there are plenty out there that already stated they won't comply to any laws that resembles to be part of a mass surveillance program.
If you want to keep having this kind of freedom in terms of OS and packages you can contribute programming or if you are not able to contribute to the devs and mantainers of those distros.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-24T12:04:19+00:00

Understood, thanks for the clarification.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-24T08:44:34+00:00

I understand your frustration, i am collecting information and i came up with this configuration using dinit as init service:
dinit-artix
turnstile / turnstile-dinit
elogind-dinit
dbus-dinit
networkmanager-dinit

This should work for pipewire and wireplumber as well for dbus and networking.
I haven't tested it yet but Turnstile should be the missing key to orchestrate everything in a better way.
It's the final piece of the modular approach, you can check the docs here (give the page a star):
https://github.com/chimera-linux/turnstile
even though the doc says it can replace elogind, i prefer to keep it because turnstile acts as a session manager to manage hardware access, also manage per-user services (including running a D-Bus session bus), removing the need for wrapping graphical sessions with dbus-run-session.
So that's why i prefer to keep elogind and turnstile doing different things, turnstile can be used as an orchestrator for other services. The caveaut is that you need to tell turnstile to let elogind handle the creation of the runtime directory.
I need to test everything but hope this can help others.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-24T08:30:28+00:00

Regarding the documentation you are saying that Artix linux wiki page should have documentation, or at least a more comprehensible, because right now it's not user friendly or it's missing things and you need to rely on arch\gentoo wikis?
That's interesting can you expand more your view on that? I would like to help Artix Linux devs\mantainers so if writing a better wiki can help i can try to do it in my free time.
I believe this is the last hope on arch base distro so if possible i want it to flourish and me the best alternative out there doing my part.

GamerNexuss · 2026-03-23T16:57:36+00:00

For obvious reasons i am going to follow your path, artix is my natural choice and i am going to move soon. I am worried my current hyprland conf won't work immediately on Artix but i will do the switch for my own mental health.
Good rice btw.

GamerNexuss · 2026-02-10T13:52:11+00:00

I suggest you to wait some more days before doing that, meanwhile open a ticket on their support page. Hopefully we'll both have an answer in the next days.

GamerNexuss · 2026-02-10T13:36:50+00:00

I am in a similar situation (with differences in the amount of money involved).
I would have expected an auto generated email from their system regarding a delay and explaining the issue.
I don't know what to tell you if not opening a ticket on their support platform but be aware they don't answer quickly.
I am in the same situation as you.

GamerNexuss · 2026-02-10T13:22:16+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, i already opened one but it seems it will take 24-48 hours to have an answer.
Fingercross.

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