@jkl: thank you very much for the list. I'll look into the distributions.

(18-03-2019, 11:52 AM)jkl Wrote:

(18-03-2019, 11:27 AM)Igrom Wrote: In your opinion, what will I gain by switching to something else

The fruits of the UNIX philosophy

I understand your complaint about bloat in systemd and imagine that, for advanced, lower-level system tinkerers that bloat is synonymous with a lack of modularity and (re)composability.

At the same time, I have heard complaints about extraneous switches in core tools (cat -v considered harmful). My impression is that this redundancy, while not necessary compatible with the UNIX philosophy, does not impair the application of the two above principles of modularity and composability. Within the option bloat in cat, for example, there continues to exist a tool that does one thing and one thing well: `cat` with no options. By using this subset, it seems to me that I can have that elusive fruit without moving to a different system.

Or is there a different fruit that I am ignorant of? Do you have in mind an anecdote where that other operating system enabled you to do more than you could have readily done on Linux? I'm okay with moving away from Linux if I am constrained by it.

When you are disappointed in Linux, is it because of superior theoretical possibilities on other operating systems, historic difficulties with realizing tasks on Linux, or both?

I recognize the choice of some to champion free software on their machine. I consider free superior, but am myself okay with using a proprietary piece of code if I cannot work around it.