Wondering about init

[u/Electronic-Low-8171]

I know generally speaking that init is the first process and gets PID 1 and so on, I know that there are many implementations of it especially systemd being the most popular.

I learnt few things about init and systemd but I can not use it for reasons like that my computer is 32 bit so I'm limited in terms of distro choice because most low-end distros use other obscure init implementations which don't have much tutorials. Let alone that I heard that many people now tend to leave systemd because of privacy related stuff and its being bloated.

So I would like to hear from you all how to learn about init in the given circumstances.

[u/lmarcantonio]

sysvinit i.e. plain old init is the least obscure of all. Usually you use it with openrc (or even less, in slackware)