How to ditch systemd on Debian if you don't like the recent changes - Pawb.Social

systemd recently pulled some shit, adding a field to store people’s birthdates because of a new California law. (It’s not the field itself that’s the problem, it’s how easily they’re jumping to comply with shitty laws.) This has our whole friend group rightfully freaking out. I’m pretty glad that it’s now normal to be uncomfortable with systemd, it makes me feel a whole lot less weird. I do wish the circumstances were better though. Anyway, since we switched most of our machines (all our physical ones, not our VMs/LXC containers/VPS though) to OpenRC a little while back, I figured I’d (do it again in a VM and) document the process for anyone who wants to jump ship too. Hence, my blog post! (Unfortunately if you’re on Arch it sounds like you’re a bit screwed unless you get your init system from the AUR and write all the scripts yourself. I have no idea about Fedoraland.) – Frost