I’m considering void but will home be persistent brig it was made on Ubuntu?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >
> > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for
> init,
>
> Yes yes yes yes, YES!!!
>
> > but recognize  you will be missing some features (which could probably
> be done
> > with something else), the daemon services will be written and managed
> differently,
>
> s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system.
>
> > and there are a lot fewer people available for support.
>
> Who ever needed init system support before systemd?
>
> > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption you're
> using
> > systemd.
>
> Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway?
>
> > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for me
> because
> > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their
> repositories which
> > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I would
> be
> > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts.
>
> Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is
> supported. Void
> uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts
> (called run
> scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File.
>
> Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and featureful,
> but what I
> said about runit is true of s6 too.
>
> SteveT
> A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

-- 
:-)~MIKE~(-: