<div dir="auto">I use at home the same stuff I do at work. Minimizes my mental cross-polination so the admin stuff at home is easy. My work stuff is far more complicated than the few desktops/laptops, a firewall, some file services and a mail/web server I have at home.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So far, all the systemd issues I've had have been pebkac problems. Ditto for SELinux. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Don't want systemd? Probably stuck with an older distro (security issues) or a smaller user base one (fewer eyes on the bugs) or a BSD something. Or FreeDOS (totally rocks!). I think Gentoo has a build without systemd as does archLinux.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 10, 2017 6:40 PM, "Joe Morris" <<a href="mailto:jolomo@panix.com">jolomo@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey,<br>
There was a discussion here a few days ago about systemd. I don't have a religious<br>
opinion about it but I also don't want to play sysadmin at home. Like, ever.<br>
<br>
Long story short, ran into a problem on my cheap Dell laptop running CentOS that, while<br>
systemd was only the partial culprit it obscured the more serious problem to the point<br>
that I'd just as soon never see that on a personal, one-off system again.<br>
<br>
It's fine when I'm spinning up 200 virtual instances, configuring with automation and<br>
destroy and create whenever I want but not my home box. Where I save all my old<br>
bits and bytes.<br>
<br>
Anybody have a recommendation for that scenario? I'm agnostic when it comes to<br>
debian vs rh vs solaris vs bsd. Really don't need anything except the ability<br>
to read/write via USB 2 or 3 of all my data, boot from a minimal local drive (500GB)<br>
and support Ethernet and WiFi. I don't really care about windowing systems as<br>
long as it doesn't get in the way too much.<br>
<br>
Any on-the-ground experience of a distro that can be installed without systemd<br>
is appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Joe<br>
<br>
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