Your thoughts?

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If wasn’t for ArchLabs, I wouldn’t use systemd anymore. I understand that, for a small group of developers, systemd make life easier, also I respect individual choices.
About systemd, my feeling is that is not the best ā€˜design’ for an operating system and I don’t mind experiment alternatives, so far my systemd-free experience has been satisfactory, once I’ll get familiar with Void, that will probably be my default.
I love you all, whatever init you like…

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I used to think so, too, but moving to Void is difficult to an Arch user. Many packages unavailable. Many packages out of date. :confused:

That’s why I am not rushing it

If the home directory requires an actively logged-in user to decrypt the home directory, there’s going to be a problem with remote logins via SSH that depend on the SSH decryption key found inside the (at that point encrypted) home directory. For that reason, SSH simply won’t work without a logged in local user, which of course defies the whole point of remote access.

That right there kills the project. I see a major dumpster fire on the horizon trying to sort that one out.

Not against the concept of trying to improve efficiency, though.

A lot more than that.

For anyone that started using linux after 2010 systemd is just another part of their linux system, init and rc are just whispers of the past.

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Fair point, but I understand is not about systemd itself, is about the current ā€˜policy’ regarding systemd guys and their ā€˜dominant position’.
Nobody knows what’s at the end of the road and many rather walk away.

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This solves a very old problem with encrypted laptops, seems like a great new feature to me.

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People are upset by change even when it’s a good thing.

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Wow! I spent waaay too long reading that article and a tome of comments following it. I have no experience that qualifies me to comment, but that has seldom stopped me before. I’ll just say that when i began using linux i was constantly mad because i didn’t have ā€œpermissionā€ to go somewhere or do something. It’s years later but I’m getting a nagging deja vu feeling I’m gonna get locked out of my brand new homed one day.

Hey let`s just put a ā€œdā€ at the end of any new thing, just to make people go apeshit! :smiling_imp:

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Yesd :grin:

Pulseaudiod :crazy_face: Sorry, could not resist that one. :slight_smile:

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