this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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Guaranteed absence of flatpak will be a motivation for some to choose a non-systemd distro
Flatpak has been pretty optional on most distros I've used. Snap on the other hand...
Look inside: snapd installed
One of the reasons I've been avoiding or actively moving off Ubuntu these days. The snap ecosystem is bloated AF
I've lived without Flatpak for over 20 years. I'm not worried.
Omw to switch my arch to a selfwritten init manager /s
Just boot into kernel command line and start your services manually.
in Haskell or Rust?
C
C++
Probably, yeah. I'd start in C and realize I do actually like C++ concepts and styles too much to continue in C.