Has anyone used Void Linux? What was your experience? (piefed.ca)

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Just learned about it recently. It has received a lot of praise as a rolling release distro. Also it uses runit instead of systemd.

It has been praised also for being more stable and better designed than Arch.

And I wonder how it compares to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed,

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[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

I will contrast most comments here and say that I didn't really like it. It does what it claims to do and has some neat things going for it. But I don't want an OS to tinker with and configure from the ground up. Which is the entire point of Void. So, I settled on Fedora KDE, which is set up out if the box with a very usable system that has defaults that are easy to reconfigure how I want if I really need to. With Void, you have to configure just about every little thing. If that is what you are looking for (and in all fairness, there are valid reasons to want that), it is a great choice. It is just not what I want out of an OS.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

For this, respins may be worth considering, as that would eliminate that only issue, what with being preconfigured. [Oh, there are more void respins these days than I thought there would be. A dozen! I thought maybe 3.]

Or perhaps revisit voidlinux, to try the XFCE release. Much less to configure than from base.

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