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Alpine Linux

I heard you like extra light distributions, right? Alpine is the distribution you will love then! Although I used it once on a server, I use it very often when I have to create Docker images and containers due to how light it is. When I installed it on my server, its fresh install only took something like 100MB on my hard drive, Im not even kidding! Its package manager apk is relatively easy to use too. Be aware though Alpine Linux does not come with Systemd or glibc but with its own init system, musl and busybox, so its not even a GNU/Linux distribution like all the others above.

I dont know of any madman running it as their daily driver, but its definitively possible although I wouldnt recommend it for anyone thats not very used to Linux. I dont find its documentation to be great either, but its still enjoyable.