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With all of the renewed controversy over System Disease, I'm tempted to switch back to Void Linux, which I haven't used for some years.

Slackware>Void>Gentoo>Devuan>Artix
pkgtools>xbps>portage>apt>pacman

Spoiler: Explanation:

the best init you can use on Artix is OpenRC. It's neat enough for you to rc-update delete udev, elogind and dbus

Devuan lets you use SysVinit which is ideal, you run ln -sf /bin/true /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
ln -sf /bin/true /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
find /etc/rc?.d/ -type l -delete
find /etc/rc?.d/ -name "*udev*" -delete
find /etc/rc?.d/ -name "*elogind*" -delete
find /etc/rc?.d/ -name "*dbus*" -delete
and edit /etc/rc.local manually

In Gentoo things are simpler, you write USE="-udev -elogind -dbus"

Void takes it a step further you rm the symlinks for udev, elogind and dbus from /var/service/

Slackware is the best because you simply run chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.udev, chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.elogind, and rc.messagebus can be disabled in initialisation but just make sure its executable bit is also flipped off.

 

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Slackware>Void>Gentoo>Devuan>Artix
pkgtools>xbps>portage>apt>pacman

Spoiler: Explanation:

the best init you can use on Artix is OpenRC. It's neat enough for you to rc-update delete udev, elogind and dbus

Devuan lets you use SysVinit which is ideal, you run ln -sf /bin/true /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
ln -sf /bin/true /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
find /etc/rc?.d/ -type l -delete
find /etc/rc?.d/ -name "*udev*" -delete
find /etc/rc?.d/ -name "*elogind*" -delete
find /etc/rc?.d/ -name "*dbus*" -delete
and edit /etc/rc.local manually

In Gentoo things are simpler, you write USE="-udev -elogind -dbus"

Void takes it a step further you rm the symlinks for udev, elogind and dbus from /var/service/

Slackware is the best because you simply run chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.udev, chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.elogind, and rc.messagebus can be disabled in initialisation but just make sure its executable bit is also flipped off.

I used to be an insignificant contributor to Void and Suckless repos back in the day, so switching back to it would be low friction for me. For instance, I improved a bunch of the Runit initialization scripts and optimized st.

Clean up xdraws and optimize glyph drawing with non-unit kerning values - st - simple terminal

git.suckless.org

I've also used Gentoo before, but that was back in the 2010s. Only reason I moved away from Void and Linux in general is I got sucked back into Windows with Windows 10 due to work and some games I wanted to play (but Steam & Proton has improved significantly since then). When I decided to finally get away from Windows for good, I ended up choosing CachyOS due to it's relative simplicity and rolling updates, and the fact it wasn't an Ubuntu clone.