| Difficulty   | Systemd distros    | Non-systemd distros |
| :--------    | :---------------   | :------------------ |
| Beginner     | Mint               |                     |
|              | LMDE               |                     |
|              | MX/Systemd         | MX/sysVinit         |
|              | Peppermint/Debian  | Peppermint/Devuan   |
| |  |  |
| Easy         | Solus              |                     |
|              | Lite               |                     |
|              | Pop!OS             |                     |
|              | Elementary         |                     |
|              |                    |                     |
| Good second try | Ubuntu & variants  | Antix            |
|              | Zorin              |                     |
|              | Ubuntu with PPA    |                     |
| |   |  |
| Some experience         | Debian             | Devuan              |
|              | Fedora             | Alpine              |
|              | OpenSUSE leap      | Artix               |
|              | OpenSUSE tumbleweed|                     |
|  |   | |
| Difficult or experimental    | NixOS              | Void                |
|              | Arch without AUR   | Chimera             |
|              | Manjaro            | Hyperbola           |
|              | Garuda             | GUIX                |
|              | Arch with AUR      |                     |
|              | OpenSUSE slowroll  |                     |
|  |   |  |
| More difficult |                  | Slackware           |
|  |   |  |
| Requires  dedication    | Gentoo/Systemd     | Gentoo/OpenRC       |
|              |                    |                     |
|  |  | |
| Very difficult  |   LFS           | LFS                 |