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Taking the leap to Artix

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2025-06-14

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systemd no more

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Artix Linux is a distribution based on Arch, but without systemd.

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Seeing how systemd has become insidious within Linux it's no mean feat.

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After watching this video, +and having read a lot of systemd warnings by old timers, +I decided to try Artix. I prefer a rolling release distribution, and I like Arch a lot, +so Artix was the logical choice.

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After the first hour of floundering around I got it working.

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For some reasong the default network manager was limiting network access, for example the Artix site +and my own site were ok, but reddit and duckduckgo were not allowed. I checked /etc/hosts but couldn't find +the culprit. In the end I removed ConnMan and installed networkmanager and it worked straight away. In addition +I can now use nmtui.

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There are still things to fix, for example the SLiM desktop manager no longer works, true it's ancient, +so I'll have to find a replacement Until then I'm just typing startx after logging in.

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I have dwm running, bluetooth and pipewire too, so it's just a question of fiddling around.

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