I would  ditch that software in a heartbeat. If it requires systemd as much as it does, then it must be crap.
That being said, I am not entirely sure what its for.

Or if there are alternatives to it. I may look later...

hmm, dunno which ones use systemd though...

But i found one named danube cloud... You tell me if its any good.

Yeah, there sure don't look like there are a lot...

Seconded...

Qemu-kvm is awesome. 

Virt-maanger, is semi okay...

But, virtualbox has been crap since... well, always really...

Especially when they made it depend on a non-free watcom compiler. 

4.1 was the only version I ever liked even a little bit.

QEMU, FTW!

Why not get something you can have without the intel me or amd psp?

Such as a thinkpad x230 with coreboot and intel me neutered?

I have such a device, and it runs very fast. Like it can handle 3x the load of my thinkpad x200 at least and its maybe 4x faster.

Just my two cents regarding what you should get. 

And in the later future you could wait for something more open source friendly such as mnt reform or that balthazar laptop from balthazar.space

That would have risc-v, so it might be 3 or more years away from happening. I  bet a risc-v laptop that's 90% freedom friendly hardware with few backdoors, will be out by the time HyperbolaBSD is out.

Aka, 2024 or later.

My bad though, im getting off topic.

Ath9k + intel me neutered + coreboot or retroboot when that is out for the thinkpad x230, is a good fit. Your choice, but I myself enjoy it.

Till someone learns how to remove the intel me code on it completely, I will probably use it for light gaming.

Small problem, voidlinux isn't bleeding edge, its rolling release with a focus on stability.

So I guess you could say its semi rolling release. I think? I haven't used it a whole lot, but, I also noticed that using musl's voidlinux is a little more buggy.

More importantly though, I also noticed that connman is the easiest interface to get started for voidlinux. 

Depends also though how it is installed on your comp too though.

But yeah, Archlinux can be a mess.  Dunno about Artixlinux though... probably similar though

Warning about void though, if your laptop doesn't need non-free crap, just forcibly remove it. I had no issues as long as it is a libreboot or coreboot + me cleaned device.
Otherwise, you very likely need to keep it.

A side note though, libreboot is being rebranded in the future...

Actually just a small edit, the first time I installed voidlinux which was sometime between 2014-2018 or something like that, there were small bugs if you wanted to use certain apps,

That's about it though.  I have a feeling they improved it vastly since then.

Hmm, well, they try to load when I used devuan's kernel despite the intel me being disabled.  And my laptop has no problem with the linux-libre kernel... so idk if what you said is accurate, but perhaps it gives some advantage.
As for if they are open source, meh... I heard bad things about both, so I see no need to keep them on.

That all being said, thanks for the info on how to disable them.

I have touched appimages in the past and occasionally still do, but that being said, you are probably right about appimage.

They probably aren't as secure or trustworthy as official repos for distros you trust.

I should add, i don't  flatpak and especially snaps even more so.

I am not sure about guix package manager, or other alternatives... but snap and npm ones currently rank my least trusted methods of installing.

Especially now that I know about ubuntu's non-free server for snaps.

Aka, walled garden anyone?

Aww... but being off topic is fun!

For instance, let's talk about eating bugs and maggots or about how the plan of google is world domination.

Btw, editing as this is meant to be a joke...

Yep, mhm...

I think the best way to call this, is corporate fascism. 

That's my thoughts personally, although to each their own...

But yeah... pcs are not personal unless coreboot is installed and no firmware blobs are required to run wifi, graphics, etc...

Thinkpad x230s are good for this purpose... albeit somewhat slow. ;>)

At least from what some people say. I myself find the speed very good.  Intel me disabled, stripped down, coreboot on and WALA!

A laptop that doesn't suck major dong...

But on topic,  yeah... corporations and government need to be spied on not the other way around...

Kind of hard to be civil when people are just straight up in denial about things that are facts...

That being said, I might have been too harsh. 

I just really, detest cult like thinking akin to trumplicans, fascists, neo nazis and denialists...

At some point people who have team mentality, should abandon their team... when your side threatens violence like trumplicans do, its time to eject. If you know what I mean... or to put it more simply...   escape that sinking ship before you go under.

;<)

Oh hush up man, 

hate speech isn't free speech man, you know that trump told his supporters to march on the capital and that he encouraged violence. This isn't the first time, won't be the last.

The real threat is being talked about and its called extremism.

trump supporters are friggin extremists. Even the corporate democrats aren't this evil, hell even the republicans in power aren't this evil, they just cowards. 

Don't give me that "those aren't the droids you are looking for"

That isn't logical in this case and we both know it.

I don't like to be so crass about this, but extremism must be exposed.

PS, I detest both sides but especially corporate rulers and effing fascists.

It might be beyond mine too, never used it... I have used runit/runit-init and openrc.

Although, never tried s6 cause i hear it is a replacement for systemd thats less bloated. Thus, you get the idea...

Corporate greed does make it worse, yes....

I still fail to understand why people don't realize life is short and thinking amassing large amounts of money WILL NOT, EVER BUY HAPPINESS!
Maybe TEMPORARILY IT WILL, but at some point, you get corrupted, you become evil and later die.

It is all pointless to amass wealth on this world at the cost of your own heart or if you prefer soul.

For the life of me, this is just... insane.    Morality >  Wealth 

Why? Because you won't be happy when your greedy.  At least not for very long anyways.

Long term happiness > short term happiness...

Most of what you guys said, I agree with though.

I don't know if I agree with having no backdoors in all computers, but unless your a corporate entity or a government agency... you should not be spied on unless you have a criminal record.  And even then, there should be a reasonable approach. What we have here is the opposite, its just to keep power for the ruling class and let no one change it.  That is insane.

Snowden thought spying had a place, but only on the very powerful. The people in power should be spied on to make sure they don't abuse their power. As for everyone else though... NO! just no... 

My 2 cents man...