[aaaaaaron]

> It doesn't overwhelm you with thousands of packages and dozens of boot services right in a fresh install. On the contrary, it does only what you tell it to do. It puts you in charge and makes you feel like you can understand it top to bottom.

Just like Arch Linux and Gentoo, of course.

[fensgrim]

> just like Arch Linux

and even Arch (Artix) can't be stripped of elogind and such

[movq]

I don't know if it works on Artix, but there is seatd [1], which works with wlroots compositors in place of (e)logind.

seatd is ~6k lines of code compared to elogind's ~200k.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/

[ruthmarx]

Alpine and Void are better for this IMO.