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Nope. Much easier for me and actually possible to use a Linux distro without systemd, but it is almost impossible to do it without GNU tools. Also the principles and values of freedom and openness and promotion of those are much stronger with GNU than with systemd.

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> but it is almost impossible to do it without GNU tools

Yes it is (https://chimera-linux.org/) and even if they're are on the OS, they're not the most important part of the userland, they're there for CLI users to use. They're not important for setting up the userland, systemd is.

> Also the principles and values of freedom and openness and promotion of those are much stronger with GNU than with systemd.

I don't think that's relevant in the context of a proprietary distro.

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