well, it depends on what you want, but tinycorelinux has worked well for
me, and it fits in about 24M

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 6:42 PM Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

> Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> writes:
>
> > This is all well and good but what I, and I suspect other
> > boomers like me,
> > are looking for, is something like Ubuntu without systemd.  I'm
> > a xubuntu
> > guy (Ubuntu with a lighter weight desktop), but whatever.
> > Ubuntu is fine,
> > everything works there.
> >
> > So is there an "Everything just works" distro without systemd?
> > A guy can
> > hope but I suspect not.
>
> Mm, well, i guess that depends on what one's "everything" is. i
> used Ubuntu years ago - having moved from Mandriva - and was
> pleased by how everything "just worked". But over time i started
> experiencing various issues where things _didn't_ just work (i
> can't remember what now; i think printing might have been one
> thing), which became increasingly frustrating. So i moved to
> Debian, and had a much more "just works" experience. But then
> Debian moved to systemd, and i started getting frustrated again in
> various ways, and so i moved to Void.
>
> Void's a binary distro, and i don't recall having any more issues
> with it than i ended up having with Ubuntu. And for experienced
> *n*x users, the installation process is trivial (even if the
> installer is text-based, rather than involving snazzy graphics).
>
> > I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass but I'm 62, I prefer to
> > spend my
> > effort on fishing on the ocean, I'm not some young guy that
> > wants to
> > put in a ton of hours on my Linux install
>
> Fwiw, i'm a 50-year-old woman. :-) My first distro was RedHat 5.2,
> around the end of '97.
>
> To me, this is a "bubbles in wallpaper" thing. i've spent the time
> setting up Gentoo because i'm now at the point where i'm clear on
> what i do and don't need/want (in general), and i'm trying to
> minimise the extent to which i'm beholden to having to deal with
> breaking changes to subsystems / libraries / software that i don't
> need/want, or with breakages i don't know how to immediately fix
> or workaround. Because i have _many_ other life commitments
> myself, and i've never distro-hopped just for the fun of it; i've
> always been driven to do so, for various reasons. My distro is
> merely a means to an end, not the end in itself.
>
> (i've taken on s6 documentation stuff because although there's no
> shortage of people wanting alternatives to systemd, there are far
> fewer people volunteering to do even small amounts of the work
> necessary for that.)
>
>
> Alexis.
>