Fresh new and happy user of Artix (Dinit and Cosmic)
Hello,
I installed base Artix with dinit on my main box yesterday.
I followed the main wiki during install and everything went smoothly.
I installed trizen as the AUR helper in Artix repositories, so I could install my beloved Pamac Manager (the gtk3 version), and install everything easily.
I already had a working /etc/pacman.conf from a virtual machine, so I just added the repositories back (especially extra) so I could install Cosmic.
I had exported my theme in Cosmic, so I only had to import it back.
I had already asked previously about adding the cosmic-greeter login manager as a dinit service, and I followed the howto of then.
I ran into a couple of obstacles after install but nothing that couldn't be fixed with a little knowledge and research, or by checking on what I had running on Manjaro (e.g. blueman to activate my Magic Touchpad 2, NetworkManager for Cosmic to show wi-fi and ethernet sections and panel icons).
Most of my issues came down to skipping the user permissions part of the configuration section of the wiki.
fn keys and event buttons (power, restart, log out...) worked after adding my user back to the input group (in /etc/group).
Mounting disks without being prompted for root password worked after adding user to storage I suspect.
One thing I didn't expect though is to have to add the user-dirs.dirs file so that the file manager would recognize the usual folders with their appropriate icon.
I've replaced elogind with seatd+turnstile+acpid. It all just works.
Services are so easy to set up and make work in dinit, whether for root or for user-specific ones (e.g. pipewire). And most are already available, so it's just a matter of installing and then enabling them.
Everything feels smoother, faster (boot times are stunning) and less bloated than under systemd, memory usage is down too.
I was dreading this install, but it worked really smooth in the end. I'm really impressed.
Having done it previously in a virtual machine really helped, so I would really recommend people interested in Artix to go through the process first in a VM.
I am now a systemd-free user of Artix and it will certainly stay that way for the foreseeable future. Thanks for this great distro, and thanks for an awesome init + service management system!!
PS: I tried to be relatively thorough so people researching issues might have some specifics to read if they need pointers.