Simplicity
...
And also jails
Simplicity
...
And also jails
Lack of systemd.
Alpine
Gentoo
Void
These are popular distros without systemd by default.
Artix, too
The air of mystique
The introduction page with the ASCII art
vis/unvis (or is it 'viz' with a 'z'? I forget). Basically a tool and intermediate representation that lets you detect and deal with unprintable characters.
De-encryption handled by filesystem, not by SystemD or bootloader.
rc.conf