We're looking to create a comprehensive list of the most popular Linux distributions and the reasons why people use them.
I'm curious, do you intend to put up the results somewhere?
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It has it's own package manager which is nice and performant, it has another script similar to the AUR to an extent, runit is simple and sensible.
The setup and configuration is really simple and friction less (for example, daemon start/stop scripts are standalone and sit in /etc/rc.d).
Uses a port tree system for packages similar to openbsd.
The packaging system is the simplest I've ever found in a distro, meaning that making your own package is a very simple and quick process.
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DietPi on my ARM devices
Arch. It's a "build-your-own" distro without the hassle of compiling everything from source, like with Gentoo (still love Gentoo, though). Also, it has pretty big repos with the AUR on top of that.
And no, it's not unstable, if you can read. My oldest Arch install was 5 years old and even then, it didn't break. I just wanted to do a fresh install for no particular reason.