Hey all!

I'm in something of a pickel now, I accidentally blew away my root partition of my computer. Serves me right for trying to figure out a python visual novel engine.

Anyways! I thought I should ask for suggestions because I would rather not just re install debian.
I would consider myself a moderate Linux user, I know my way around the command line and I'm not scared of getting into the thick of issues and working them out.

Constraints:
Has to support x86 architecture, (god damn Chromebook)

Has to be something a dedicated moderate user could learn in a couple weeks. school is coming up and I need this thing to write essays on.

Preferences:

Minimal, I'd rather have to set it up myself than have to uninstall it myself.

Pls no bloat fam


Needs:

I don't do that much on my computer, I just need.

- web browsing
- writing
- programming
- music
- email


Things I'm interested in:

Learning, I want to grow as a user.

Source based, always been curious about, I used funtoo for all of two days but maybe I should try something similar?

No Systemd
I will be the first to admit that I don't know everything about the ini that rocked the world. However I have read several well written blog posts that rip it apart.
What can I say, I'm a sucker for well written things.
This isn't that important. I still need to do my own research but I'm just putting it out there for now.


What I was thinking of:

Slackware- why not try it?
Only thing that annoys me is the installer tries to put the kitchen sink on your computer.

Exherbo- will it be too difficult to use or impractical?

Gentoo/funtoo - maybe?

Void - is it any good?

Alpine - I know it's used for network switches and things, would it be usable for a laptop? See needs.

Linux BBQ - I was just using hipster, the latest one is amd64 ;( I used bork for awhile but ran into some issues. Still I love the releases.

Sorry for the long post!
Have a nice night guys