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@Canageek I'm big on MX Linux. It's Systemd free by default, but you can add it if you so choose. It uses xfce as its desktop so it works well on older machines (there's also a KDE version) and it's got a very mature and comprehensive set of administration tools, letting you go so far as to make custom portable boot media based on a system you've configured. It routinely wins various best this and that Linux contests, is well tempered enough that you can stick a newbie in front of it and they'll be fine, and mostly nobody has heard of it. It's a joint effort of the Mepis and Antix projects, I've used it as a daily driver for 8 years or so, nothing but good things to say about the distro and its community.