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

submitted 2 days ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, its probably not applicable to most folks, but I like browsing packages with images, icons, and descriptions, so for me its a tradeoff.

I believe there was one or more graphical package managers but they were QT based or otherwise not GTK and I was using gnome (I know, I care too much how things look lol), and I don't know if they were actively being maintained. I know there was more than one at one time, but I wanna say one of them got abandoned, and I'm not actually sure if the other was being actively developed anymore either by the time I was playing with void