Hmm, that one worked for me, but maybe the wayback machine will work for you? https://web.archive.org/web/20250618100950/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

The article vanished some time after being published, here’s an archive link.

That would explain the slightly dazed look…

If you are just a user, in that a computer is just a tool you use, then you’re right, there’s comparatively little reason to be concerened or even know about the underlying details of the system. If you go further and start making changes to your system, or even building more complex systems, over time you will find yourself forming quite firm opinions about various parts of the underlying system, especially if you’ve had experience with other options.

Honestly, I’m not sure, I was looking at Devuan, but then noticed that Debian supported sysvinit natively so I went that route instead. I figure that sticking to the source distro was going to give me fewer headaches, and so far it’s been plain sailing.

Debian, installed without systemd as per the wiki. So far I’ve not hit any issues, whilst I’ve recently ended up diving through both kernel and systemd code to find the root cause of an issue I was hitting on one server. I could have just bodged past it, but I wanted to actually understand what the issue was, and what else it was going to affect.

The pace of development of Piefed really is something to behold! I like the new menu structure with communities at the top, but I know others would prefer feeds there, and frankly either is good. However, could we get the mega menu as a separate page too, so I can bookmark it?

Thanks for the quick work! The ‘leave all communities’ button, in conjunction with the export and import of settings, means I can edit me subscriptions in vim if I want to, which is great. Having an option on the import to replace my subscriptions, rather than add to them, would be the cherry on the cake.

That’s interesting. If the text had made it clear it was optional I definitely would have skipped it. Hopefully that will be easy to fix.

Well, that’s a horrifying dystopia, well done.

“the kids won’t see it as weird. they’ll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same” is the bit that sold it for me. It’s entirely plausible, corporations would live it, and I hate it.