[cykros]

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.

[andor]

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

[yjftsjthsd-h]

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