Ive been runing Debian 12 (kde) since bookworm was released and am loving it.

I have recently discovered Devuan which seems to be Debian without systemd - what is the benefit of removing this init system?

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      1 year ago

      I never had a fast NVME SSD so my devices boot significantly slower than yours but unless you are actually at the point of instant booting it’s about half the boot time for me. I only use OpenRC on my Pinephone because it’s the default for PostmarketOS (a Alpine based OS for mobile phones) and never found a good enough reason to use it on my actual computer but it’s quite a bit faster and also quite a bit less convinient so all in all probably not worth it but still impressive to watch!

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        1 year ago

        I am on an NVMe drive, however most of my boot time actually comes from the POST process so even if I were to switch to an OpenRC (or runit / another init system), it wouldn’t really have any meaningful impact on my system’s boot time unfortunately.

        ❯ systemd-analyze time
        Startup finished in 17.412s (firmware) + 2.684s (loader) + 3.587s (kernel) + 2.134s (initrd) + 9.244s (userspace) = 35.063s 
        graphical.target reached after 9.208s in userspace.