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Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I'm curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I'd love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I switched from Arch Linux to Artix Linux to test a distribution without systemd. For now, it works pretty good and I do like.

Advantages... I don't see many, as systemd also runs pretty fast, I don't notice some extra seconds or milliseconds. I think the only thing I could like about not using systemd is that now I have more UNIX style RC, and the fallback DNS isn't set to Cloudflare by default. A part of that I had some issues I needed to fix, but I also enjoy learning new stuff so isn't an issue for me, I do like.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Void linux is also very nice for the same case

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I see, not Arch based so much more unique distro. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Void Glibc is my second-favourite distro. Awesome choice.