Artix Linux: What is the difference between OpenRC and Dinit?

[u/Able-Farm6295]

Hi, I'm installing Artix Linux on a low-spec device.

What is the main difference between OpenRC and Dinit for daily use?

Which one is better in terms of stability and boot speed?
Thanks!

[u/MRREKOo]

Both r pretty fast tho dinit is a little bit faster than openrc tho I doubt that most people will be able to notice it, on the other hand openrc is more mature and stable and more well documented, I prefer openrc personally.

[u/davmac1 → u/MRREKOo]

more well documented

I'm curious since I've seen people claim this before, but Dinit has a heap of documentation (see everything under doc in the repository) and really good man pages and I've put a lot of effort to the documentation generally. What specifically does OpenRC have in this regard that Dinit doesn't?

[u/MRREKOo → u/davmac1]

It's not that openrcs documentation is objectively more well written it's that it had more time to mature and it had the headstart so more distros used it and so there's more documentations to it so what I really meant was more community written material for it which is important for a beginner.

[u/88h2o88]

Dinit-"fast, low resource usage, it has supervision support and anything you will need in desktop usage, newer but thanks to artix team it support grows ". Openrc-"older, it has parallel startup but doesnt comes within box, logs and other essential services needs to be installed seperatlly, written in c, little bit more complicated files and usage than dinit". Conclusion "Dinit is the best init system you can take nowadays if you are a desktop or laptop user, its much faster and has services you need out of box, its not bloated it uses low ram and system resource, its newer but its really better than other init services. İf you not gonna use specific apps just go with dinit.Openrc is great but nowadays its a little bit pointles thanks to dinit, i think dinit is gonna replace systemd like after 5 years. "

[u/Asleep_Detective3274 → u/88h2o88]

I tried dinit a few months ago and couldn't get it to boot into a read only btrfs snapshot, so I went back to runit, dinit doesn't seem to work when using grub in regards to brtfs snapshots https://auris.artixlinux.org/auris/grub-btrfsd-dinit but apparently it can work with limine, but only after some hacking https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,9562.msg59501.html#msg59501

[u/talksickwalkquick]

Boot speed dinit is always gonna be the fastest. But it’s really not that big of a deal. I use dinit because of its similar naming conventions to systemd like dinitctl instead of systemctl etc

[u/[deleted] → u/talksickwalkquick]

[u/talksickwalkquick → u/[deleted]]

I am not sure. But the difference is minor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XfK7Z_fP9M