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Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC
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Void is Arch, but stable and without systemd.
If you know your way around Linux in general, that's a good choice.
Void is NOT based on Arch. It was an original distro created by an ex-NetBSD dev. But yeah, I'd recommend it too.
I didn't say that in a sense it was based on Arch, I said it like it was like arch: rolling and keeping the kiss principle.
Void is its own thing, which is another great point of going with Void.
Idk man, Void is cool but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they had a strong philosophical aversion to systemd, or wanted to try a musl-only system, and wanting a degree of "it just works" is kind of the opposite end of the spectrum.