So, tried a new distro on my laptop. It's called Artix Linux . It's very cool. The reason I tried it was because I wanted to install Void Linux on my laptop, but for some reason it kept messing in the install, and I had wanted to give this distro a try anyway. You can choose from various different init systems, and it has the barebones Arch install method, or you can choose to use a Calamares graphical install too!
The init systems you can choose from include s6, suite66, openrc(I think that's what it's called), runit and now dinit! So yeah, it's cool.
The only thing I dislike so far is the package selection, which I find to be a bit lacking, but with flatpak and Nix, I can probably do just fine. I just need a music player, movie player, download manager, PDF viewer etc. Yeah, so I do need quite a bit of things, but it seems to have the vast majority of them in the repos so far.
Two things have me stumped though. It seems that whenever I upgrade the system, when mkinitcpio triggers, it can't find the kernel image in /boot or /etc/mkinitcpio.d. I don't know if I did anything wrong either, as I'm using the Zen kernel and BTRFS and the runit init system, but none of that should alter where the kernel image resides...
The other thing is that I have blank fstab file, so I don't know if I forgot to generate it or what during the install... well, whatever... it means the swap partition doesn't get activated at boot time. So I'll have to figure that out too...
In any case, everything else runs fine! And it runs very fast too. I'd like to try out dinit at some point.