You could also check out Void, Antix or Alpine if you’re looking for a Linux distro without systemd. But nostr:nprofile1qqs0eac2gh86s9l24qfmnw52xawhz0f3d862yleaetpafygjmanaxlspz4mhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdaksz9rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2as5ruqph makes a good point, why not try out one of the BSDs? They are a class apart, and one of the flavours is likely to fit your use case (server, desktop, firewall, toaster…)
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Looking into FreeBSD. Gonna try it out in VM.