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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Lubuntu vs. Xubuntu: Which Ubuntu flavor is right for you - my expert advice
Date: 27 Dec 2025 22:52:56 GMT
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:48:52 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> writes:
>> rbowman wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:49:28 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The BIG differences between distributions are - initd vs systemd -
>>>> RPM vs apt
>> 	
>> 	There are several other init systems in use as well though only 
the
>> 	discerning
>> can understand the differences in results.
> 
> My suspicion is that 95%+ of end users will neither notice or care about
> the choice of init system.

95% is high but if you exclude the graybeards many Linux users have never 
seen sysvinit and wouldn't know what to do with it.