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What are the most active distros without systemd?

Ever since systemd was adopted by mainstream distros, there's been many reactive projects aiming to provide a distro without systemd.

I've often had the impression that a lot of these were motivated by opposition to systemd to get off the ground, but then languished because the maintainers found it difficult to follow through on the less controversial, "boring" aspects of actually maintaining a distro long term.

I don't like systemd and I would like to use a distro that doesn't depend on it. But I also have limited appetite for tinkering. It would be annoying to switch to a distro without the systemd, only to be stuck with a bunch of other things broken that would be quickly fixed in any active distro.

I realize that tinkering and troubleshooting comes with the territory on Linux, even the big distros like Ubuntu or Mint. But with some niche distros it's a whole other level. There's ones where the maintainers are few, but they are disciplined at staying on top of maintenance, I'm not worried about those. But then there's the ones where the maintainers are so on and off that you see urgent, critical issues go for months without even a word from any maintainer - those aren't practical to use unless you can commit to a level of effort equivalent to being a distro maintainer yourself.

If I am looking for a systemd-free distro in 2024, that minimizes such issues, what are my options?