Void Linux

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Void Linux is an independent distribution, developed entirely by volunteers.Install once, update daily. Your system will always be up-to-date.Void use runit as the init system and service supervisor. xbps is the native system package manager. https://voidlinux.org/

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What are some of your favorite things about Void? (self.voidlinux)

submitted 1 year ago by hyperreal to c/[email protected]

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I learned about Void recently and really liked some of it's features as a distro (simple packaging system, runit services). Just wanted to hear what others like.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really like the simplicity of it. It's not exactly Gentoo and it's not exactly Arch as well. It's somewhat in between. The package manager is also something that's taken right off the BSD package managers, which is what love about it as well. Once again, it's not exactly Portage, and it's not exactly AUR as well. It's well maintained and people update packages regularly, but they don't compromise stability over having bleeding edge software. If the new version contains bugs, they don't jump to it. They'd rather have the stable release than the latest. Same goes for the kernel.

I've used Void as a NAS OS and web server, it's rock solid. I've seen more problems with point release distros than from Void, lol. I know, it seems crazy, but the only problem I've ever had with it was with the hplip package, which broke my shared printer setup, but that wasn't even an xbps repackaging problem, it was a bug within the hplip package. In any case, it was a quick fix. I also use BTRFS with snapshots, so I didn't fix it right away, I just rolled back a snapshot and took a stab at the problem in the next few days.

So, basically, Void with BTRFS and snapshots enables and you should be golden 👍.