[Preamble P.S.Edit: Oh... that's quite a lot of effusive enthusiasm that just flowed through my keyboard. I hadn't quite realised I had this passion, for that little quiet one who just gets stuff done. Thanks Void.]

Void's been a fave of mine since at least... idk how many years before 2014.

One of the main things I love about void, is how clean and uncluttered the packaging is, as a user. No superfluous clutter of extra characters in package names, no superfluous clutter of extra similar named packages.

It makes installing things a pleasant painless breeze (~ + a scant few edge case exceptions).

Void's my go-to.

I'm a bedrock linux user (since 2012), and always, voidlinux has been part of (nearly) every (of many) bedrock installs over the years and versions. For many years, I've considered voidlinux one of my cornerstone distros to the system I build for myself on bedrock. Void, devuan, gentoo, artix. That's my 4. And like I say, void's my go-to. It's nearly always the first distro I reach for to get a package from.

Also, somehow, it's simplicity transfers to how I run void in bedrock. To explain, contrast to how I oft tend to run gentoo, devuan, and even artix. Sometimes I may make multiple gentoo strata, most typically split by keywords, sometimes by other criteria (even if just also having a decibellinux (pka "gentoostudio")). Sometimes I'll have a devuan for every release, nearly always at least a ceres stratum too (aside either testing or stable... or both... or more). Even artix, I find myself having more than one, mainly just to avert/backup around difficulties (y'know arch(/artix)... it likes to take a bite at you every once in a while). But void...? I cannot think of even once I've ever had a reason to have a second void stratum in my bedrock linux installs.

Void just does it.

No complicating it.

I've a strong fondness for the simplicity of distros like CRUX, KISS & Carbs. But in use, ~~ sure sure, you learn a lot more, but ~~ these are just not as smooth and pleasant to use, like void is.

Void manages to confer the simplicity on the user. Not leaving the simplicity in the code, leaving the user with the complexity to use (~ like, we're all bog standard convenience wrapped package manager stuff here... not make install'ing and chasing dependencies manually). And does not get in the way of this. Like I mentioned... no clutter in package names or package lists. It seems like such a little thing, but it really goes a very long way.

Big praise to the developers and maintainers. I understand xbps (that's the package manager's name, btw), has many features, but void so much "just works", I have so rarely had to venture outside the standard 5 commands for package management. Once you know how to search, install, remove, update, and upgrade, with a package manager, you know enough to cover >99% of your use case, likely. With void, that 99%'s points are a lot tighter towards 100%, than other distros. For an obvious comparison example, from my cornerstones, gentoo again... You learn the 5, you've still >10x more to learn, to effectively use gentoo. And artix too, that's likely two package managers (2x5 commands) to learn, if wanting AUR access with a wrapper (more, without wrapper). And even devuan, I'll find myself needing to rummage around in /etc/apt/repos or whatever from time to time. So ever rare to have to dig in deeper with void, in my experience.

It's quite like arch, but it's orders of magnitude less likely to bite you (e.g. render your system unbootable / need rescue after upgrade because of something you didn't do or something a dev/maintainer did).

And the repos are surprisingly well stocked.

It would not have become my go-to were it not well stocked.

It's easy to get a bit dismissive, and think of void as a late-comer to the scene, a pokey little distro, wont have as many packages, smaller community, etc etc, and think of it equivalent to the smaller more pokey distros. But no. Surprisingly well stocked.

As a bedrock user (for the majority of my use of voidlinux), it is rare that I need to reach for a package from one of the other cornerstones (or even more exotic distro strata) because void does not have it. But, okay, sure, it does happen. Manage expectations still. Often for the weird things only found on git or the AUR.

But no, I struggle to find complaints (~ maybe top of the list (~ have not checked on this for a while), haskell & xmonad could be a little more smooth... I forget the specifics, but there used to be a couple little extra pokey hurdles...).

Void's great.

Maybe takes a little extra diligence and the right temperament if a new user to unixen (like if a windows refugee, or new to computers). But with any level of prior familiarity, void should not be too scary to install. It's installer's much of the same philosophy... simplicity, extended right to the user.

I thoroughly encourage the curious to give VoidLinux a go.

Well worth the experience. Your next "distro challenge"? 3 durations on VOID Linux?

:)