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.

  • black_dinamoEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    • ISO’s for many systems (x86_64, i686, arm) • Base images for highly customizable experience •Good for old or “weak” machines, due to its capability to be a light OS •5 minute friendly installer for a non GUI one •Good documentation with a handbook •Engaged comunnity in different plataforms(like Reddit, lemmy, IRC) •Rolling release but not bleeding edge, packages and updates verified before releasing. Void focus in stability. •xbps (x binary packages systems) for managing packages, which is quite easy to use •runit (or systemd free) •easy services management •really fast booting •Original not based or dependand

    That’s what got me into Void. I have It in 64bit and 32bit old laptops. The 32bit it’s a daily driver for college which i enjoy very much due to it being small, inexpensive and “agile” in its own way.

    There’s a lot of features that i didn’t explored yet for lack of knowledge or need like disk encryption, ZFS via chroot, musl, arm installs or server usage. Void is great, i’m really thanked for everyone who works in it.

  • @[email protected]
    2•1 year ago

    For medium to advanced users, I believe the best experience is derived from installing a distro that gives you just a tty and building up from there. Debian’s packages are too old. Arch’s too new lol, I don’t wanna have to think about my updates at all. Void is the perfect middle ground between those, installs similar to Debian, and even boots faster than both :)

    (Gentoo is a no no)

  • @[email protected]English
    1•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 👍.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    I might be necroing a bit, but not a lot has been happening here so :P Mostly rolling release model and ease of contribution to the package tree, this is the first distro I’ve used that makes it possible for basically anyone. Runit is alright for my needs, although I replaced socklog with rsyslog because I didn’t really like/understand some of its conventions and in the end couldn’t tailor it to my needs.