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Ive been runing Debian 12 (kde) since bookworm was released and am loving it.

I have recently discovered Devuan which seems to be Debian without systemd - what is the benefit of removing this init system?

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[–] Virulent@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi. Long time enterprise Linux admin here. Systemd is great and way, way better than sysvinit. I've also used openrc and i can say it is okay.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm not sure where the idea that systemd is "trash" in the enterprise world is coming from. Of all the contacts that I know who work in an enterprise environment say this, nor have I even seen anyone on the internet mention this.

I mean if there's an actual reason for it other than just the usual bandwagon of "systemd bad" I'm all ears.