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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Guaranteed absence of flatpak will be a motivation for some to choose a non-systemd distro

[–] phx@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Flatpak has been pretty optional on most distros I've used. Snap on the other hand...

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

apt install firefox

Look inside: snapd installed

[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

One of the reasons I've been avoiding or actively moving off Ubuntu these days. The snap ecosystem is bloated AF

I've lived without Flatpak for over 20 years. I'm not worried.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Omw to switch my arch to a selfwritten init manager /s

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Just boot into kernel command line and start your services manually.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Probably, yeah. I'd start in C and realize I do actually like C++ concepts and styles too much to continue in C.