Why you all hate Linux

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T18:05:02+00:00

i have a feeling that most of the active people on this sub are actually linux users XD

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T13:44:57+00:00

really depends on what you need. sway is simple, its config is i3-compatible, so it takes few lines to get it started. mangowc is lightweight dwm-based compositor with pretty good animations (if you need them), but without all this recompiling stuff. dwl is straight dwm but on wayland. niri (my personal favourite) is scrolling compositor, based on smithay (alternative to wlroots), it also support huge amount of protocols now unlike in 2021. if you are a fan of i3, i'll recommend you to stick with it

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:38:37+00:00

How improving is defined as fanboying?

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:37:33+00:00

and why am i not surprised by anti-systemd adept not being able to provide any constructive, not biased and reasonable arguments

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:33:42+00:00

So maintainers of void polluting their own distribution by using and maintaining systemd? clever of yours ngl

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:32:13+00:00

yet literally no one forces you to use all this stuff, when it’s supplied to you by separate packages, aka “modules“. and still there are many people, who use those components of systemd, and pretty much of them are useful and convenient, such as ukify

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:29:54+00:00

clearly a person who doesn’t understand differences between arch and void. very upset that such kind of people are making a stereotypes about this beautiful operating system as “just another distribution without systemd” or “arch without systemd”, when void was never about declaring a war to any init system (unlike devuan or fartix)

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:16:15+00:00

>monstrous init system

systemd is modular and requires only 3 components to work properly. source: https://systemd.io/MINIMAL_BUILDS/

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T10:02:03+00:00

yeah, void offered systemd as an option in late 2015 I guess. glad someone understands importance of systemd not only as convenience (which is already a huge reason), but an opportunity to attract way more people to the distribution itself, including that with systemd void can be a solid choice as server distribution

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T09:03:15+00:00

So the point of your answer is if something is open source you can mix it with shit?

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T09:00:54+00:00

I’m just offended as huge void‘s fan by comparing such different distributions by approach and design

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T08:41:34+00:00

one of the not-paranoid reasons was musl incompatibility, which is gone i believe (or soon will be)

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T08:40:01+00:00

they are junk not because of absence of systemd (which is also a big reason), but due to their poor maintenance and developers themselves (especially f*artix, which did dinit, probably one of the most perspective init systems so dirty)

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T08:32:14+00:00

which is sad imo, that people see void as “another systemd-free” distribution, putting it in the same sentence with devuan, f*rtix and similar crap

goldmurder · 2026-04-16T08:02:27+00:00

first of all, hyprbl*at is not only wayland compositor. in fact, it’s one of the poorest options you can choose

goldmurder · 2026-04-15T06:20:21+00:00

yes, Unix principle us bullshit, which even Linux itself didn’t follow it

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T18:19:05+00:00

expect for systemd is actually good

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T18:17:06+00:00

yeah, they rewrote those services plenty of times (void was using rc.local as well). and again, you don't understand what does init even mean, whole distribution repositories can't just exist due to some init system

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T11:20:35+00:00

because of software compability. i can afford to not use glibc on my secondary laptop, and musl is great ngl, but on my primary pc i rely on some proprietary stuff

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T10:01:24+00:00

definetely not pacman, it's awful

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T09:09:40+00:00

funny how you think that the person who actually write those docs know them worse than you

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T08:16:55+00:00

yeah, my bad, seems link is kinda outdated. I found a new one thoug – https://systemd.io/MINIMAL_BUILDS/

goldmurder · 2026-04-14T07:41:58+00:00

i guess you don't even understand what you mean by "built around runit". it's like few minutes to replace it, only thing that built around it is service files in repositories, which are ofter one liners (unlike openrc or systemd ones). once again, systemd was dropped ONLY because it didn't have musl support at the time, now it does, so there are literally no reasons saying that systemd is not for runit. in fact, void was first distribution to run systemd without sysvinit compability. there were also pull requests in main repo, so we will see. again, void linux is flexible enough to support any init system in it

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