I’m looking forward to your iso Keegan. No rush of course. I’m on vacation right now and can’t play around with openRC/Artix anyways.

I’m out of town on a family vacation right now, but I came across this:

http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=5879

I think this is a fairly balanced comparison.

https://iwf1.com/systemd-vs-openrc-which-init-system-is-the-best-for-you-comparison/

I feel silly. I got Calamares to install after entering ‘artix’ for the password. After sorting the keyrings, I am able to install packages with pacman.

Haven’t played around with OB yet, but LxQt is quite speedy in a VM with 2G RAM. Running htop, 225M RAM after a reboot.

Thanks Judd!

There’s been gallons of virtual ink spilled in commentary over systemd vs sysvinit. It primarily comes down to philosophical differences, and who’s driving the changes and adoption of systemd within the Linux ecosystem. I think Red Hat, a for profit company, driving open source Linux scares many end users.

Windows and Mac work perfectly for millions of people. I think diversity within the Linux ecosystem is good, including distros offering systemd-free platforms with more modern init like openRC. I don’t know why anyone would care if a distro offers systemd-free options or not.

I got the Artix .iso from sourceforge.net, and can boot to live with virt-manager, but cannot find the installer, nor any install documentation. What am I missing?

@karasu said in Is Antergos openrc (nosystemd) really wanted or necessary?:

@triode13 thanks for your offer, if we do this in the end I’ll contact you.

@judd This would not replace the systemd version, it’s just adding a new one. You’ll always be able to use the “normal” systemd version, do not worry.

Sounds good! I would like to help in any way I can.

I would install it in a VM, but wouldn’t commit to bare metal off the bat. I installed Gentoo with openrc on a VM to compare systemd vs openrc, but haven’t played around with it enough to form any opinions. While I have no programming experience, I might be able to offer some time and resources to help maintain openrc? I also use and love OB.

Linux friends don’t let Linux friends use Realtek and Broadcom wifi hardware .