linux user since 1998. systemd is a cancer. However, you might like OpenRC or runit (Calculate Linux or Void Linux are your friends). As for distributions, we

linux user since 1998. systemd is a cancer. However, you might like OpenRC or runit (Calculate Linux or Void Linux are your friends). As for distributions, we as seasoned linux users have to take the initiative to adopt and popularize new distributions, the way we adopted Ubuntu en masse in 2006 out of nowhere. GalliumOS for chromebooks, Calculate Linux for laptops/desktops, and Void Linux (or gentoo hardened) for servers. When newbies ask for advice, we are doing them a disservice by suggesting Ubuntu or debian-based derivatives, despite the availability of binaries for everything, for the same reason that people suggesting RPM-based derivatives (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora) were doing a disservice to newbies. My 13yo daughter can get through a Calculate Linux, Manjaro, or Antergos install (though she needs help replacing systemd with OpenRC on the last two). Let's start promoting the new good distributions, now that the old ones have jumped the shark.