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MX, antiX and Gentoo are the only distros that support a non systemd init system without making a big deal about it like its normal to have a different choice as a linux user
Voidlinux too
Super up! Q
Artix too.
Slackware too.
Alpine too.
That's what I always loved about Gentoo. Users are interested to have a system with systemd: Gentoo supports it and got you covered. Users are interested to have a system with OpenRC: Gentoo supports it and got you covered. There's even a couple of people who want to use
runitors6(and maybe others I've missed) and they're there in the official repos, but depending on your needs you'll have to do some work on top of that. Similar story with device managers, tempfile managers etc.