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by graemep 639 days ago
> unfortunately the impression I get from never seeing anyone talk about OpenRC, Shepherd, Upstart, et cetera; is that either nobody uses them

People do use them. Multiple distros either default to one of those, or support it: Alpine, Devuan, MX Linux, Slackware, Void, Guix, Gentoo and others.

> or they don't add anything worth noting over SysVinit.

Not looked at this myself, but do they mostly not add something - dependencies, easier config or something?