Artix Linux is a distribution based on Arch, but without systemd.
Seeing how systemd has become insidious within Linux it's no mean feat.
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.
After the first hour of floundering around I got it working.
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.
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.
I have dwm running, bluetooth and pipewire too, so it's just a question of fiddling around.
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