| https://nosystemd.org/ The most popular non-systemd distro I hear about is Void linux, which is a rolling release style distro that's pretty comparable to(though not based on) Arch. As a tangent because you brought up distro's and difficulty, I know Arch has a reputation with some as being too difficult for regular skilled users, but as a regular skill level user myself, I find that the Arch/Void style rolling release paradigm of doing stuff makes things easier for noobs like me, not harder. Once you get past the initial hurdle that is the first hour or two of install and setup(which you can do just by copying youtube tutorial instructions line by line) then everything after that is much simpler. For me, I find that the majority of everyday linux problems all boil down to trying to install or update some kind of software. Either software you already have has a bugfix or feature you want in the newest update, or you have some new software you want to install. And because developers like new shiny things, often times the newest version of whatever has a dependency of some other new shiny thing. Installing new software in a fixed release distro often quickly gets too hairy for me, but in Arch I can almost always a simple install directly from the main or user repositories. This has so far eliminated 95% of everyday problems for me defying the usual narrative I hear of it being "harder" to use for normal Joe's like me. |
And yet the Linux Desktop community insists on sticking with the package manager/repo model that makes stuff like this such a pain. Worse, it's actively hostile to the concept of portable applications in general.