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Re:Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD by nine_k on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:41PM (#26060859)
Easy answer: Gnome desktop.

Red Hat produced systemd. Red Hat is the major contributor to Gnome. Gnome now refuses to run without systemd. Every major distro wants to carry Gnome, so...

Well, at least some distros offer a choice. Some other distros (Alpine, popular for containers, Void, which powers my laptop) live happily without it. Various shims exist, logind exists to allow running things like Xfce without systemd.

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Re:Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD by enriquto on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:55AM (#26062584)
> Gnome now refuses to run without systemd.

Is that true? The gentoo documentation says that you can chose your init system independently of your desktop manager, and puts openrc+gnome as an example:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME_Without_systemd/Gen...

You can also install GNOME on OpenBSD, which of course does not run systemd.

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Re:Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD by 0942v8653 on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:40AM (#26065041)
Not GNOME itself, but Gnome Display Manager:

> After the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3, configuring GDM is only possible through systemd as it no longer supports other init systems.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

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Re:Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD by enriquto on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:15AM (#26065578)
not a big deal then, there's plenty of display managers, and you don't even need one to use gnome
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