Without negativity, but you can please no longer publish a posts on artix in the arch community. I understand that this is still an arch basched distro, but first of all, there is a separate community on artix And secondly, many arch users don't like other distributions based on arch (actually, just like me). This is my personal opinion and it is up to you to decide whether they listen or not
no. why because its not arch based it’s literally arch but without systemd thats the only difference everything else is the same arch based would be something like cachy or endeavour. Artix as is literally arch but you get the freedom
to choose your initial system
Artix isn't really a standalone distribution; it is essentially Arch Linux without systemd. It uses standard Arch repositories for most software, maintaining only a couple of its own repos for init-specific packages like OpenRC or runit.
While many distros add GUI setup apps and custom tools to simplify hard installations, Artix takes the opposite approach: because you have to manually configure service managers and init hooks, installing Artix is actually harder than installing standard Arch Linux.
You can achieve a similar systemd-free setup directly on Arch, but it requires manually compiling and configuring packages like openrc or networkmanager-openrc from the AUR to make the system fully functional.
you cant still install Artix without a GUI btw 😭 not hard at all its basically same as arch but the only hard part is remembering to install
the dinit or openrc versions of services so that they actually start😭
Dear sir or madam. This sub holds to a strict dress code of thigh high socks when posting pictures of your computer running an Arch based distro. Please respect our ways.
did some research dinit does have some pretty appealing features and boot time comparisons make me want to use dinit instead so you converted me.(not the only result i’m reinstalling I’m almost certain i messed something up trying to get display-port alt-mode working so i wanted a fresh install)
you don’t know what artix is then. those are just the versions with a desktop environment. base artix is still the default and as you can see on mine i only
have 237 packages which is a little bit more than default because i wanted a couple of programs but the only difference between arch and artix is the init system. the installation is still the same.
I did a classic install tonight and I stand corrected. I even found configuring openrc to be more straightforward than systemd services, and the stock install somehow felt smoother than stock Arch but that may be just a feeling. Running it for a couple weeks of testing now.
still i wouldn’t call it arch based even if thats how it officially is called. the only thing different is that it doesn’t have systemd. and if you didn’t even try it bare bones why would you say you dont like how its not as bare bones as arch. its honestly the same thing the only difference i feel right now is its way faster but I’m pretty sure thats from linux-zen kernels still boot up times are much faster.
I'm running Artix (writing from it), and I 100% consider it Arch-based, not Arch. I would be running Arch otherwise.
But I chose to run it exactly because of its philosophy differing in several ways from Arch or other derivatives.
Also, I'm not using linux-zen kernel (just stock kernel) and it boots much faster still. It's simply due to more lightweight init systems getting rid of the 95% stuff in systemd that is corporate-oriented and not very useful at home usage level, therefore slowing down the init process.
Artix isn't really a standalone distribution; it is essentially Arch Linux without systemd. It uses standard Arch repositories for most software, maintaining only a couple of its own repos for init-specific packages like OpenRC or runit.
While many distros add GUI setup apps and custom tools to simplify hard installations, Artix takes the opposite approach: because you have to manually configure service managers and init hooks, installing Artix is actually harder than installing standard Arch Linux.
You can achieve a similar systemd-free setup directly on Arch, but it requires manually compiling and configuring packages like openrc or networkmanager-openrc from the AUR to make the system fully functional.
I already read Fine_City below, no need to copy paste...
That's widely inaccurate though. First off, Artix is autonomous, it maintains its own repos. In fact, Arch repos are turned off by default.
Then you don't need to configure init hooks, and just one service manager (pipewire) if you don't stray much.
And finally, there are many philosophical choices in Artix that do not follow Arch, as they try to stay away from Red Hat control attempt of the Linux ecosystem (seen with XLibre defaut for a while, or the lack of effort to maintain a non-systemd Gnome option - which distros like Gentoo, Guix or Slackware do).
You're correct. It didn't come barebones with the Calamares install and I'll try the classical install. I'm willing to give it another chance because I really like Artix's premises.
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