Whats your favorite OS?

[crosscourt]

Doesnt have to be just one, but what OS do you like the best and use most of the time.

[crosscourt]

I have many I like and use,
Full OS Mageia 6, PCLinuxOS 2018 KDE, Linux Mint 18.3 XFCE
Lite OS Q4OS 2.4, MX Linux 17

I tend to lean these days towards the RPM and Debian based distros as Mint is the only Ubuntu based one I use.

[crosscourt]

I find myself using MX Linux 17 the most with PCLinuxOS/Mint right behind.

[chris]

Slackware 14.2; Kernel 4.14.12; MATE 1.16
Antix-17-net; Kernel 4.14.12 (updating to .14 currently); MATE 1.18
Tried Q4OS and MX-17 (your recommendation) - both nice and fast but systemd! MX very pretty, too.
Also have VMs of Mint 18.2, LMDE2, Ubuntu(Artful)-MATE

[crosscourt]

MX Linux doesnt use systemd to my knowledge as it uses sysvinit same as AntiX. Q4OS does use systemd.

I also run Linux mint 18.3 XFCE and Im typing on Ubuntu mate 16.04.3 right now.

[dai_trying]

MX Linux ships with systemd present but disabled by default

[crosscourt]

Yes it does, but they use sysvinit as mentioned in the link. Debian uses systemd so they had to make that choice for themselves.

Heres a list of distros that dont use systemd, http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[chris]

Seems to me MX-17 has more systemd than Antix-17 or Slackware (none)

mx17-vm!chris (pts/0) Sun 21 Jan 2018 11:39 pm GMT:/home/chris
$ ps ax | grep systemd
363 ? Ss 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd --daemon
1739 ? S 0:00 /sbin/cgmanager --daemon -m name=systemd
2214 ? S 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
4081 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/systemd-shim
4125 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep -i systemd

antix-vm!chris (pts/2) Sun 21 Jan 2018 11:42 pm GMT:bash-4.4:/home/chris
$ ps ax | grep systemd
6134 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep -i systemd

slack142!chris (pts/0) Sun 21 Jan 2018 11:47 pm GMT:bash-4.3:/home/chris
$ ps ax | grep systemd
1574 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep -i systemd

[crosscourt]

Already had that discussion with the devs over at MX Linux and they said they do not rely on systemd but obviously since they use Debian 9 there have to be compromises in some areas, particularly with MX17 given its design.
Its certainly better than using systend has the complete default. The less of it i use the better but honestly I use all types of distros and not really heavily concerned about the issue. Some users will not use any distro with anything systemd but Im not at that point. The systemd chatter has been going on so long that its gotten very old. People will move in the direction they are most comfortable and for me MX17 is fine the way it is.

If more discussion is to happen about systemd with distros please start a separate thread, thanks CC

[tlmiller]

Debian. As far as systemd is concerned, it's something that I don't like, but I don't dislike it nearly enough to avoid any OS just because of it.