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Was thinking of making a Void Linux one, but I don't think there are enough users on Lemmy that use this particular distro.
Void seems to be surprisingly popular, I haven't tried it. I'm a Gentoo user, any particular reason to give Void a try?
It's basically like... this nice compromise between Arch and Gentoo. You got precompiled packages, but if you'd like, you can compile everything from source. xbps-src is like Portage on Gentoo, except some of the more popular packages get precompiled and put on the main repo (kernels, libraries, office suits, browsers, etc.).
I like it cuz if you'd like, you can get nitty gritty about it, but if you'd just like things to work out if the box, just use the repos and off you go. Plus, it comes with xfce by default (if you choose the DE ISO), which is what I use, so saves me the time to set up xfce. And it has a non-free repo, so that's also a big plus (take a proprietery package, repackage it for Void if the license allows it, if not, just leave the template in xbps-src and let users make their own package).
Also, it's incledibly stable for a rolling release distro. I also use it on some severs, I've never had a single one break something after an update. It's not as bleeding edge as Arch, so they'd rather opt for not something as new, but more stable, which I also like.
Is it going to hassle me about which daemons to restart or shudder demand I pick a timezone? These are the sins of Ubuntu.
Well that and clogging up my mount list with snaps.
Ummm... no, you pick a time zone during install, that's it. You might need to restart some services if you change your time zone (wouldn't know, never had to change it).
That being said, it doesn't come with an NTP client/server by default (as is with Ubuntu and other "everything works out of the box" distros), you have to install one manually. Once installed, the service is inactive, you have to make it active by symlinking a folder from one location to another (this is all explained on Void's site, it doesn't use systemd, it uses runit as it's init/service manager). Restarting services is pretty easy (as is with systemd)
sv restart name_of_service, that's it.I don't think snap is available in the default repo (maybe in the non-free one, haven't checked), but it does have flatpak in the default repo. Either way, couldn't really help you regarding anything snap/flatpak related, I don't use them. Everyting I need is in xbps-src, so I just compile from source (or repack, in case of non-free packages, like AnyDesk).