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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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[–] solomonschuler@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

its great in the sense it offers both glibc and musl, between using void and arch, I do prefer arch more; faster installation times and it uses about the same memory (on idle) as it would with void. in the end I chose arch Linux as I'm more familiar with it; I've been using it for 4 months now and there are specific applications i use that are easier to install and get on arch than with void.

as I continue to say, arch now is what windows 10 was 10 years ago, you have AUR, you have pacman. With some minor problem solving here and there, applications haven't been easier to install on linux.