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Debian for my daily workstation. Minimal terminal-only install, and then I piece together my environment.
For smaller, headless applications I like Alpine. Containerized projects, VPS, etc.
Okay. What are your thoughts of KISS linux? It's pretty minimalistic and have a very tiny package manager which is written entirely in Bash script.
Debian is KISS. Grab it and use, no need to overcomplicate things.
KISS-ish. Default init is systemd. Debian also provides customized configuration of services.
Building a deb package isn't that straightforward as Arch's PKGBUILD.
Sounds like a remake of Slackware.
I'm unfamiliar with KISS. I don't really distro hop, since what I use has satisfied all my needs to date.