14 Jun
2024
14 Jun
'24
1:33 p.m.
I'm with Larry on this one. I'm 64, I been running Ubuntu Mate for ~8
years or so, and even though it's systemd, and yeah, systemd IS an
abomination, I don't care enough to go looking for something else. I
still have $DAYJOB, kids living at home, Free Software to maintain,
books to write, etc., etc., etc.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers#Permanent_switch_back_to_ups…
looks like it might do the trick, but it also looks like it's a little
old, and I don't want to brick my production systems.
I may try to spin up a VM and see if the instructions work before
doing it for real.
Arnold
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
This is all well and good but what I, and I suspect
other boomers like me,
are looking for, is something like Ubuntu without systemd. I'm a xubuntu
guy (Ubuntu with a lighter weight desktop), but whatever. Ubuntu is fine,
everything works there.
So is there an "Everything just works" distro without systemd? A guy can
hope but I suspect not.
I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass but I'm 62, I prefer to spend my
effort on fishing on the ocean, I'm not some young guy that wants to
put in a ton of hours on my Linux install, I like Linux because it is
Unix and it is trivial to install. Windows? Hours and hours of finding
drivers after you find some USB network connector that Windows knows?
No thanks. *BSD - have you installed one of those? It's a trip back
to the 1980s, those installers are fine for BSD developers but just suck
compared to Linux. Mainstream Linux just works.