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Pure Debian is the way.
Debian has always had a primary focus on being open source and adhering to good open source principles. It's a rare trait in the modern Linux ecosystem sadly, with so many corporate distros just trying to make a buck. Arch seems pretty good about open principles as well. I'm always going to stick to community-powered distros over ones backed by corporations and I suggest everyone who cares about FOSS do the same.
It was until they shipped systemd. Bloody mess.
If you don't mind me asking, why do you not like systemd? I like it a lot and in my humble opinion it makes life really easy.
Few people have valid rationale for not liking systemd. Most just parrot something they read because they think they are supposed to have an opinion on it.
I think half of hubbub comes from the fact that the lead dev was a bit of an ass, if I recall correctly. But hey, Linus Torvalds isn't really known to be a constant ray of sunshine.
This literally feels like the geek equivalent of culture wars stoked to divide people just for the sake of it
But muh sysvinit! My boot times are 0.5 seconds faster! Shitstemd is bloat ware!!!
Religious wars in the FOSS community go together like peas and carrots.
Anyone who thinks systemd is a mess has obviously never struggled with the failings of its predecessor. Systemd is a major improvement.
APT is the mess, I've never had more issues with broken packages and unbreakable dependency cycles than with APT
This is why I always use aptitude to manage my packages, and always review all planned actions (other than simple upgrades) before proceeding.
Try NALA, it works much better in my experience compared to APT.
Big Nala fan also. Definitely a better UI experience too
Yeah i've had problems with both Mint and Pop with broken packages. Easy to fix with synaptic package manager, but annoying.
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