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Debian without systemd is a good start. Now, do Debian without dpkg, and you may finally be getting somewhere.

The reason Debian fell to the systemd behemoth is because its sysvinit scripts were already a complete disaster. Slackware and Gentoo, on the other hand, were able to stay clear of the mess because they had a decent implementation to begin with.

And Sysvinit was never the only place Debian kept its mess.

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Yeah, that's why Slackware and Gentoo have a much larger userbase than Debian :-D

Last time I checked, ChromeOS is a gentoo derivative that doesn't use systemd, so yes this but unironically.

Huh, TIL.

> ChromeOS (sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS) is a proprietary operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system (which itself is derived from Gentoo Linux)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS

It sort of makes sense. Gentoo is basically automated Linux From Scratch — you can make anything. It's like Yocto/OpenEmbedded but for PCs. It even uses the same language.

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