| See here for someone abandoning archlinux in favour of voidlinux: http://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/005_distrohop_p1/ Note that the primary impetus was actually not necessarily that archlinux has degraded in quality over the years ever since Judd was no longer in charge, but primarily that systemd interferes with everything. I have this suspicion that the author may still be a happy archer, but systemd made him reconsider. And archlinux made a deliberate decision to switch to systemd without alternatives, so I really can not hold anyone but the new archlinux developers responsible for that. Projects often change with the "under new management" syndrome - that is inevitable. > Sadly, this has become a very political debate This is only partially true. While I agree that there is a lot of conflict between pro-and-con systemd, the major issue is that some random guys here and there decide - and subsequently dictate - onto everyone else THEIR particular mind view. And I think that this is the much more upsetting thing. > so much of my opinion is based on biased second-hand accounts. Many who dislike systemd do so not because of "political reasons" but of REAL PROBLEMS THAT THEY HAVE ENCOUNTERED. I also encounted this, such as an infinite loop of systemd at boot-up time. And I had no patience to want to debug any of it. Went back to slackware again, true and tested; it is only a base for LFS/BLFS for me though. If anyone asks, I rather use GoboLinux - but I also can not recommend anyone currently to use GoboLinux until a few more things have been resolved. It's still the best by far. There is nothing wrong with slackware per se, mind you. It's a bit slow in its development taste for my taste ... but it is still the closest towards "oldschool linux". Many years ago, I bought a red hat set of CD and SuSE. Installed both... had a GUI. Knew nothing what to do. Then I installed debian. I think it was woody or potato back then... xorg did not work, but the commandline worked, so I worked through the old handbook learning *nix. :-) That was great! Since systemd, I no longer touch anything of debian. devuan is the true successor here - the debian devs abandoned the users. Until then, I can recommend voidlinux for one reason - I actually know a few people who HAVE been using it since quite some time among them this famous dude: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/commits?author=ch... And I know a few more ruby-folks who are still using archlinux but may consider switching. I may try to convince jhass for example ... ;) - although I do have to say, voidlinux needs a bit more polishing still. They will surely manage. |