What's the point of all of these init systems if all we ever get are systemd services? You have to manually supervise all services if you'rw not using systemd which is really annoying.
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I'm a very mid-level Linux user. I use systemd because I'm just not familiar with how init systems actually work. I love that the choice is there, but I think systemd has it's place with users like me that get confused.
That being said, I did run Dracut on EndeavourOS because it was recommended for that distro. I never dived into it to see what the exact difference was, though I do remember running into some things I needed to do that Dracut did differently. There may come a day when I dive into inits, but for now I'm just happy if my system boots to desktop.
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Hate Microsoft et al., dislike software.
Nice.
Hate Systemd?
No, I don't :)