But there's bad news for those who prefer to avoid Lennart Poettering's all-encompassing system management suite. As the version 23.5 announcement puts it, it uses: Systemd init on the live session and subsequent installs. Although I personally am ambivalent and apolitical about Linux init systems it is a fact that Enlightenment Desktop Environment is designed, developed and deployed with systemd in mind.
Note that systemd compiled with musl has various limitations: since NSS or equivalent functionality is not available, nss-systemd, nss-resolve, DynamicUser=, systemd-homed, systemd-userdbd, the foreign UID ID, unprivileged systemd-nspawn, systemd-nsresourced, and so on will not work. [...] Caveat emptor. What this means is that it's now possible to compile and run systemd on Linux distributions that are not based on the GNU version of the C standard library, glibc.
MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices now more loaded pre-install decisions. Infinity is available in no fewer than seven different downloads. They are all for x86-64: there's no x86-32 edition any more. MX 25 is based on Debian 13, and since the parent distro no longer offers a 32-bit x86 edition, nor does MX Linux.