Underrated Linux distros thread, anybody? Share your experiences.
I'll start with MX Linux:
>no systemd
>xfce
>perfectly stable & usable ootb
>great battery life
>comes with mx tools, a great collection of scripts, making installing codecs, drivers etc. super comfy
PCLinuxOS
>just works
>no systemd
>stable
>apt
>kde
>mate
>font-rendering
>software availability
Newfag here. Why is "no systemd" an advantage?
I've been using Bunsenlabs for a couple months now and it's damn good desu.
Never used #! when it was a thing but it's still breddy gomfy
Great usable Openbox config.
Not a fan of aptitude and systemd tho
>breaks unix philosophy
>bloated
>developer is a dick
>becoming "the standard, reducing choice when it comes to init systems: many packages list systemd as a dependency out of laziness
It isn't. Unless you
sudo systemctl start paranoia.service
Having no systemd allows you to sacrifice the convenience of managing your system and fast boot times for ability to feel smug for no reason at all and whine about things you don't understand.
systemd is a replacement of the older init systems, developed by Lennart Poettering.
Lennart has a different philosophy than ye olde Unix philosophy, simplified: one small, modular program per thing you want to do.
While systemd has brought improvements it has a large code base, is complex, does far more than one small thing and comes with quite a few bugs.
It was made standard by the larger distro teams such as Red Hat and Debian.
Quite a few people disagree with systemd and will pick something like OpenRC.
This is quite a balanced analysis, but I don't agree with
>Lennart has a different philosophy than ye olde Unix philosophy, simplified: one small, modular program per thing you want to do.
Systemd doesn't put everything in a single program, it's actually a collection of tools each designed to do one thing. By the same logic other projects with several programs in them, like coreutils, findutils and binutils, violate the Unix philosophy, which is nonsense.
Salix OS (slackware with GUI package managment and some other improvements)
Gobolinux - Linux with sane filesystem hierarchy
If I werent too lazy to configure my system on top of one of them I'd use one of these 2 instead of using Xubuntu
I appreciate and enjoy Debian too much to ever switch, but if it didn't exist, I'd use Salix. Shame only the Xfce version is getting updated.
That is fair, systemd is modular by design.
xfce is all you need
Wow, Gobolinux actually looks decent.
Don't we already have Nix for that?
Sabayon Linux. It's usable Gentoo that actually works really well.
Based nix
>systemd
>fast boot times
You never tried anything besides it, did you
>marked as Won't fix
bump
What you mean it looks decent?
It comes with a shitty DE by default. One of the reasons I don't use it.
>mate
>a good thing
Think before you post.
GuixSD
>no systemd uses GNU Shepherd
>entire startup/maint/packager written in scheme so can script every single part of deployment/configuration without junk like Chef/Puppet
>emacs plugin to run entire OS from emacs
>all system configuration in one text file
>root not required to install packages, each user can run different version of software
>reproduce your system exactly by taking a snapshot which just saves the dependency graph in a small textfile, no 1G server state images
>no such thing as a broken update or system anymore
>if you want nonfree junk just use Nixpkgs they directly import to GuixSD
>sponsored by FSF and their new flagship OS
>Hurd ported to it to run autonomous servers
Very nice minimal distro, indeed! If your prefer an Arch base over Debian then try Archlabs.
All other distros are just a more limited version of Arch Linux.
Systemd slows down the bootup quite a lot
I mean it's kinda of a good idea to make Gentoo-like distro with a less clusterfuck file hierarchy. Default riced AWM looks awful, though. They should've just slapped xfce on it and use their kool kids wm themself.
wait, what? I can actually run non-free stuff on GuixSD?