@navi @rose It's possible, but quite involved. The easiest way ist to chroot your existing system and then purge systemd and install openRC. I did this when I installed my machine. The way to do this with a running system includes telling apt to deliberately remove essential packages, which is not something for the inexperienced. That being said, I'm a happy #Debian user who runs also openRC (and likely one of 2 Debian Developers to do so).

@navi I should update the wiki page at some point, also write user services in Debian for openRC

@rose @navi blame systemd for not allowing its removal while being PID1

@rose @navi FYI, the new release (Trixie) on August 9th will have 0.56, and it's up to date in experimental

@rose @navi no, with sysvibit you can just switch it out for other inits. That apt complains is a different issue, but that's somewhat justified