[Just for the record, it's "distro hopping" (not "hoping").]
Arch Linux uses systemd by default, I don't know if it supports other init systems. mak umba, you already used Gentoo, so you probably already know that it uses OpenRC by default, with systemd being an officially supported alternative. There's a quite strong anti-systemd sentiment in the Gentoo forums. Funtoo is a derivative of Gentoo, developed by the original Gentoo's author, and it's OpenRC-only. I think they did some pretty hard work to make Gnome usable without systemd (but I don't use Gnome so I can't comment further). You may be interested in Bedrock Linux [http://bedrocklinux.org/index.html]: it's a small distribution that provides a minimal base system, on which you can install different packages from different distributions. I think it's super interesting but I didn't have the time to test it yet, and it's still under heavy development and evolution. Anyway, as George said, there's no "ultimate", unless you work in the advertising department ;). Even if you aim for YOUR "ultimate" distro, you may be forced to face some compromises, for example two pieces of software may need different incompatible libraries… -- Emanuele Rusconi
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