Uhhh, there are no alternatives to SystemD right now.

While different inits exists and they work just as well as SystemD, there is no replacement for the whole suite of programs.

See PostmarketOS, they ended up adding SystemD because it ends up being either thar or reinventing the wheel.

Imho SystemD gets a lot of hate for no reason at all. (Not saying it is perfect at all).

Literally tons of distros could be some lib.mkDefault nixos configs. And they would get a package manager improvement.

We already have NixOS, why anything else?

(Guix is cool too).

When the pluggings system drops it’s going to be wild.

I hace a Xenia sticker on a machine that enthusiastically runs SysD.

There’s a dedicated 10th circle in hell for this people. As someone who runs a root-on-tmpfs system, PLEASE document which dirs your application is using.

It is a total pain, specially with non standar ones.

But tbf there are a lot of Linux devs who neither have read a single line of any Linux standard API.

XDG_DIR, Portals, Secrets, D-Bus, the Desktop file spec, Appstream… are there for you to read. 🥰

This is nixos.

Having a good --help command does wonders.

There are man pages which do avoid me opening a web browser, the systemd ones are pretty good for example.

I just installed tldr to test it out tho.