You know you can get custom keycap sets for it, right?

> I'll stick with Das and Ducky keyboards

Filco, Pokers and RealForce for me

What do you mean with short action? All cherry switches have about the same travel distance.

If you want to stay with Cherry switches, go for something with either mx brown or mx clear switches, and possibly add o-rings to mute the bottoming out sound [the sound the key makes when you reach the end of the downstroke]. Clears give more feedback than browns and I'm more accurate on them, but they are *very* stiff, it takes some getting used to.

Alternatively, you could go for something else than Cherry and get something with Topre capacitive switches (CM NovaTouch, RealForce or Happy Hacking Keyboard). They are really nice to type on, and quite silent by default. A lot of people swear by them over Cherry switches. The sound they produce is more of a muted tok than a loud clack. The major downside is that they are very expensive [for a keyboard], around $200 for a RealForce.

^^

Ignore the previous comment. I wasn't fuly awake yet. Of course you don't set the gateway in the resolver config.

Yes, that used to be the thing to do on most unix or unix-like operating systems.

So what kind of stuff are you starting up in parallel then, that you gain so much in boot time?

I have not seen any practical gains here. Even on my second PC, an old core2duo with an SSD, I don't see any difference in boot time between Slackware, Arch and Mint. The longest parts in the process are definitely the POST and grub phase, but once Linux actually boots it just zips on to my boot screen in a few seconds.

If there is a difference, it's going to be in the magnitude of a second or so, and that hardly warrants a new init system in my opinion.

So what does it do if a service does not respond to a request to shutdown properly? Does it just pull the plug with a kill -9, because that seems like a terrible idea to me.

... and then the systemd kids will just end up reinventing the same sort of hacks that they were complaining about in SysV scripts to begin with.

r/linux ?! You gotta be kidding me. That place is full of kids and insufferable assholes. Any comment that's remotely critical of systemd instantly gets downvoted by shills.

I think there is value in learning how other distros do stuff. It teaches you to not make certain assumptions.

I like Arch and its minimalistic DIY philosophy, but that's despite the fact that it uses systemd, not because of it. As a matter of fact, if they got rid of systemd it would be close to my perfect distro.

At the end of the day, an init system only matters so much though. Once your system is booted, and your running your software, you don't see it anymore. The times that I did have to deal with systemd, it was a damn pain in the ass though.

Minimal footprint? The recommended installation method of Slackware is still to install "everything". From the installation guide:

This gives you a much bigger footprint than what Mint, Ubuntu or Arch give you by default.

Mind you, I love Slackware for its straightforwardness and simplicity in configuration, but footprint is not really a reason to recommend it.

Finally, I don't think that footprint matters a lot these days. What do I care if my distro takes up 5GB or 10GB... Sure I may not need all of the packages that are installed, but the convenience of having most commonly used libraries and programs at hand and not having to track things down as-needed is worth more to me than a few measly gigs of disk space.

You forgot .local, .gconf, .gnome, .gnome2, .kde

What do you honestly expect them to do? Have you *seen* the kind of reprisals these assholes take against anyone who opposes them?

A touch screen on a PC or laptop is a solution looking for a problem. It makes sense on mobile devices, because you don't have the luxury of decent input devices there, but a mouse and keyboard will always be superior if you have them available.