[ale] Distro without systemd

[Joe Morris]

Hey,
There was a discussion here a few days ago about systemd. I don't have a religious
opinion about it but I also don't want to play sysadmin at home. Like, ever.

Long story short, ran into a problem on my cheap Dell laptop running CentOS that, while
systemd was only the partial culprit it obscured the more serious problem to the point
that I'd just as soon never see that on a personal, one-off system again.

It's fine when I'm spinning up 200 virtual instances, configuring with automation and
destroy and create whenever I want but not my home box. Where I save all my old
bits and bytes.

Anybody have a recommendation for that scenario? I'm agnostic when it comes to
debian vs rh vs solaris vs bsd. Really don't need anything except the ability
to read/write via USB 2 or 3 of all my data, boot from a minimal local drive (500GB)
and support Ethernet and WiFi. I don't really care about windowing systems as
long as it doesn't get in the way too much.

Any on-the-ground experience of a distro that can be installed without systemd
is appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

-- 
  Joe Morris                       Atlanta history blog
  joe at jolomo.net                   http://atlhistory.com