Thanks (to all the authors) for your hard work and contributions.

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB

So he’s a journalist </s> Thanks for the warning, saved me a read.

You can’t avoid IBM/RedHat - they contribute to the kernel and many, many other parts of Linux eg systemd. I have no idea what you mean by DIY distros, what a peculiar adjective in this context. Linux itself is DIY. Life is DIY.

That said, voidlinux is an independent distro without systemd or snaps based on runit for init and xbps for package management. It’s also a STABLE rolling release.

Can’t believe no-one mentioned voidlinux yet. It’s very tasty.

I daresay there’s a way to do something like this with fzf