khorovodoved, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) I would say, that from most important to least important components are: kernel init system (systemd, openrc, runit…) C library (glibc, musl) filesystem coreutils shell bootloader package manager x11/Wayland (if any) sound system (if any) WM (if any) DE (if any)
I would say, that from most important to least important components are: