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  • As a former sysadmin, there is plenty of logic in saying that. I have debugged countless systems that were using systemd, yet somehow the openrc ones just chug along. In the server space systemd is a travesty.

    In the desktop space however, i much prefer systemd. Dev environments as well. So yes thst is where “it’s fine”. More than fine, needed!

    I just hate this black and white view of the world, I cant stand it. Everything has its place, on servers you want as small a software footprint as possible, on desktop you want compatibility.









  • This is such a superficial take.

    Flatpaks have their use-case. Alpine has its use-case as a small footprint distro, focused on security. Using flatpaks would nuke that ethos.

    Furthermore, they need those servers to build their core and base system packages. There is no distro out there that uses flatpaks or appimages for their CORE.

    Any distro needs to build their toolchain, libs and core. Flatpaks are irrelevant to this discussion.

    At the risk of repteating myself, flatpaks are irrelevant to Alpine because its a small footprint distro, used alot in container base images, containers use their own packaging!

    Furthermore, flatpaks are literal bloat, compared to alpines’ apk packages which focus on security and minimalism.

    Edit: Flatpak literally uses alpine to build its packages. No alpine, no flatpaks. Period

    Flatpaks have their use. This is not that. Check your ignorance.