I’m not trying to bait. I’ve been playing with Void for a while, but didn’t get what makes it special. I guess I’m missing something about it.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 months ago

    It’s a lightweight, independent distro for power users. It’s also currently one of the very few distros still offering an official 32 bit version out of the box.

    I use it on my oldest and lowest power machines. It’s snappy and stable. Plus, the name is badass, for whatever that’s worth lol.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’m not really using it anymore aside from it still being on my server (i simply haven’t switched it to my new distro yet), but what made me switch to it is xbps. It’s lightning fast but seems more solid than pacman, and can easily update a system that hasn’t been updated in years.

    I also ended up liking the simplicity of runit, and it made me realize i just don’t like using systemd all that much. Because of that i now tend to look out for other non-systemd distros as well. A few months ago i switched my desktop and laptop over to guix.

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Might be that you are at the end of your distro-hopping journey, which isn’t when you have found the perfect distro, but when they all start to look the same

    • pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      You’re both right and not exactly. I use Fedora as my main OS and enjoy it, but I never even try installing it on a secondary cheap laptop. Same but vice versa with Debian. I love Alpine but I never touch it unless I need a container. I could continue forever. I’m still distrohopping, exploring, with the only “but” that I’m not changing my daily main platform.

  • quantumvoid0@programming.devEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    i like gentoo and I like arch…I see void as better part of both combined

    xbps is as gud as pacman and is rly fast for binary. xbps-src gives me control like portage

    arch is light by design, but uses systemd which slows my boot, gentoo is slightly heavier than arch (but u can make it smaller) , gentoo boots faster with openrc compared to arch with systemd…now combine the gud stuff …void, runit boots faster , void is lighter than both out of the box

    Only part I can point out where void lacks compared to gentoo is profiles and security options, other than that its perfect

    And overall i like the minimalism, flexibility and control

    I have even tried LFS , sure it was gud in every aspect and was perfect for my needs built by me, except package manager, I’m not rly looking forward to writing a package manager better than xbps.

    P.S when I say gentoo is heavier than arch I meant out of the box right after installation

    • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      I have moved from Arch to Artix after systemd contro, and want to switch to Void. Do you think it’s a good choice to run Podman(docker is fine too but would prefer podman) without much hassle?

  • Tundra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Isnt Void rolling release debian aswell? the point release is the only negative thing about debian for me