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🐧 Linux

Guides for building clean, stable, and sovereign Linux systems across desktops, laptops, and servers.

This section focuses on:

  • Practical Linux installs
  • Post-install configuration
  • Real-world troubleshooting
  • Systems that maximize user control and independence

🧭 What You'll Find Here

  • Install Guides → Step-by-step setups for curated non-systemd Linux distributions
  • Post-Install Configuration → Hardening, usability, performance
  • Troubleshooting → Real-world fixes
  • System Philosophy → How to think about Linux correctly

⚠️ Core Principle

Your operating system should serve you and not external systems, platforms, or identity frameworks.

🚫 Why Avoid systemd

Modern Linux distributions have largely standardized around systemd as their init system.

RebelRx explicitly avoids systemd.

Why?

Because systemd represents a shift toward:

  • Centralization of core system control
  • Deep integration across system components
  • Reduced transparency compared to traditional UNIX-style init systems

More importantly:

It introduces a layer where external control mechanisms can be embedded at scale.

This includes the growing global push toward:

  • Age verification systems
  • Identity-linked access controls
  • Device-level enforcement mechanisms

RebelRx assumes the opposite:

Operating systems are becoming enforcement layers.

And systemd is the most likely insertion point within Linux.

🔐 Privacy & Control Philosophy

Across all major platforms (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android), we are already seeing:

  • Mandatory account integration
  • Increasing telemetry and tracking
  • Platform-level restrictions tied to identity

Linux is often presented as the alternative.

But:

Not all Linux is created equal.

Your level of control depends heavily on:

  • Your distribution
  • Your init system
  • Your willingness to avoid convenience-driven defaults

To minimize exposure to centralized control layers, this guide focuses on:

🔹 Artix Linux (Arch-based)

  • No systemd
  • Rolling release
  • Multiple init options (OpenRC, runit, s6)
  • Maximum flexibility and control

🔹 Devuan (Debian-based)

  • No systemd
  • Stable release model
  • Familiar Debian ecosystem
  • Ideal for servers and long-term deployments

👉 Full list of non-systemd based Linux distributions: https://nosystemd.org/ and https://systemdfree.com/

📚 Guides

🚧 Guides In Development

  • Linux Terminal & Command Reference
  • System Hardening Guide
  • Backup & Recovery Strategy

🧠 Final Thought

Convenience and control are often inversely related.

This section prioritizes control even when it requires more effort.