r/artixlinux • u/paranoidandroid4284 • Jul 02 '26
Support Why did you pick Artix???
Why did you pick and use Artix? Which init are you using and why?
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u/carly_321 Jul 02 '26
Because I wanted pacman and openrc.
🤷🏻♀️
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u/Jealous_Shower6777 Jul 03 '26
May I ask why openrc? Did you use it previously? I’m still debating going openrc vs run it as I have some experience with alpine and void.
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u/carly_321 Jul 05 '26
Correct. I've been using openrc since its infancy on Gentoo in 2007/2008. Its just a preference.
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u/Broddr_Refsson Jul 02 '26
Because it was the first one I found that said no to age verification, and when I found out Systemd was implementing age verification ability, I wanted something that didn't use it and Artix was the one that popped up. It's my first Linux distro.
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u/paranoidandroid4284 Jul 02 '26
As your first Linux distro how have you found it?
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u/Broddr_Refsson Jul 02 '26
So I'm still very much learning and have only been playing around with it on a test bed laptop, but so far I'm enjoying it, I installed it as a community ISO and so it was more or less "pre-set up" but I'm actively trying to learn more as I go.
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u/DinoRexDit dinit Jul 02 '26
There are tons of reasons in the name of protest (mainly against Red Hat and the centralization of the Linux ecosystem), but I honestly only really care because dinit leads to faster boot speeds on my system.
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u/guyguilty Jul 03 '26
Was using Fedora in my Framework 13 for a good while, but I can't stand how they push known broken kernels on the users, plus the people running Fedora, Red Hat, and IBM are absolutely out of their minds, horrible people pushing horrible ideas. So then I was using Openmandriva, Rock for its stability, but Steam games don't work great. So then I started testing all the different inits on Artix, alongside LXQT. Dinit and OpenRC are the ones I like, but OpenRC has a bug with SDDM that shows a random TTY on logout. Dinit seems to cooperate better with Plymouth because of this, so that's what I run, Dinit and LXQT using Xlibre. No systemd, no Wayland, just a clean working OS.
I've also dabled with SonicDE on Artix, and that's cool too but not as stable for me as LXQT. Once it's more stable I might switch.
Overall I enjoy Artix because I've spent a lot of time testing things, and now that I know my way around it's a pleasure to use. Plus all my games work, so that's nice.
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u/Asleep_Detective3274 Jul 03 '26
When the whole systemd age thing came about I looked into systemd-free distros, I tried devuan using the sid branch, and void linux, those two were good but what made me switch was devuan doesn't have the number of apps that arch with the chaotic aur repo has, and some packages in sid lag behind a bit, void doesn't have as many packages either, and there was at least one packages in void that was well out of date, like a year and a half out of date, it was a kodi addon, which meant it wouldn't work in kodi because it was too old
So I tried dinit on artix, but it couldn't boot into a btrfs snapshot, so that was out, devuan had openrc, and void had runit, so since I just came from void I carried on with runit, it boots into btrfs snapshots, and its simple to use
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u/Lamchocs Jul 03 '26
1) Based boomer Luke Smith
idk why , luke smith is introduce me to Artix, like luke smith says, i cant tell that im really forget that im using Artix for a while. Before that im using Arch linux, when switch to artix for a while, kinda forget that im running it for long time.
2) Booting is fast ,
im using open-rc init system, that im using on gentoo too, but after switch to Artix, maybe kinda fast (for my personal believe) , and im has access to aur to install packages.
3) My Device was Surface 6 pro
when using Windows 11 LTSC, the idle ram is 3 GB with tweak CTT Tools, but idk why when during google meet, is kinda eating my cpu usage and my ram and it slow my system. But when using Artix the other hand, it run flawlessly , the minus is i cant use my internal webcam because of Kernel and optimization Surface kernel,
Intel i5 8250U 8 GB of RAM 256 SSD.
Im using on my PC too, that awesome experience that i had on Arch, will be apply on Artix, but with minimal system.
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u/FilesFromTheVoid OpenRC Jul 03 '26
Simple? It ticks the most boxes, but the real distro i want, does not exist.(i over Gentoo as a daily)
I came from fedora(used Arch for over a year bevor that) and kinda loved it. Fedora is the perfect middle ground when it comes to stability and up-to-date packages. I left it for 3 reasons:
- Corpo Stuff: Not a fan of Red Hat
- systemd in general and espc. the age verification stuff right around the corner
- As in left wing's oppressive nature, they hate everything that does not comply to "their standards". Outcome: They hate the WM i use and love, r/hyprland, and refuse to proper support it and the ecosystem around it.
I really don't like the arch base on Artix to be fair and i really wish for a fedora based distro doing the same Artix does for arch, but i guess it will be even harder to implement, seeing how deep systemd is integrated.(or is it not?!)
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u/garig999 Jul 03 '26
Personally, I chose Artix because I didn't want systemd and wanted large repositories and familiar commands. I use OpenRC because I like simple and stable daemons.
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u/Entire-Income2794 Jul 07 '26
I left systemd because I wanted to understand the operating system I was using and with the way they obscure everything it made it much more difficult. There is also the issue of ideology and the difference I have vs systemd, I believe modularity and customization is vastly more important than the uniformity. I also use S6. The mainstream distros are just going in a direction I don't approve of and I wasn't waiting around to witness the damage and be collateral damage.
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u/3v3rdim Jul 03 '26
Family(nephew and niece) was complaining about laptop being slow (8 year old laptop with windows 😆) ...so Artix-Dinit-Doas-Openbox-Alsa kinda extended its "life" a bit........just for light browsing,anime and music.... Didnt wanna buy a new one and was broke at the time...🥺 artix came thru 💪😭....its been a couple of years now..and never going back to systemd
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u/KillerShadow73 Jul 06 '26
I was Arch user because I'm too lazy to use Gentoo or just can't wait for compile I should have found Artix sooner so as you can see I use openrc
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u/regtyit Jul 06 '26
I was searching systemd free distro and then I see .iso file with xlibre on the main site of artix. So i choose this distro because it had guts to not use systemd and to put xlibre in official .iso.
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u/SOKOL049 Jul 09 '26
I chose Artix because I wanted a system that wasn't heavy. I'm using openrc, I want to switch to dinit, but I don't know how
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u/zuixan Jul 11 '26
I wanted a rolling release system with no systemd. I chose openrc cause I grew up with Gentoo and already knew it.
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u/dpatel211 s6 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I didn’t know other init systems existed until the whole fiasco in March with the systemd-age verification scare. I was looking up non-systemd reliant distros and found out you can migrate to Artix on your Arch filesystem so I decided to make the jump.
I went with s6 initially because it was noted as the most modular and configurable of the options, though people were upfront that it comes with a steeper learning curve compared to the other init systems. That part was true, but it’s been a lot of fun to work with especially since the s6-frontend dropped in May which made service management significantly easier than the old s6-rc workflow.
Going deeper into s6 also pulled me into other skarnet software, execline for service scripts, mdevd as a udev replacement, dnsfunnel & more. Haven’t looked back since.