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Void Linux Topped DistroWatch’s Average Rating (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Void Linux’s average rating soars high on DistroWatch, making it a must-try for advanced users. Learn why it is winning hearts.

https://linuxiac.com/void-linux-topped-distrowatch-average-rating/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Always interested in checking out new distro's, and I've heard of Void in the past, but my only concern with these "independent" distro's is their package support and availability.

Finding packages for Debian, or Redhat based distro's is relatively easy due to the sheer number of forked distros and community involvement.

I'll still probably fire it up in a VM to see what it's like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don't see that as a problem nowadays, more and more the desktop side of things is moving to cloud native, you got all sorts of containers for apps not packaged in your distro repos, containers like flatpak, snap, appimage etc..., and if you just want something available in other distro you could use distrobox.

It's quite cool and if it means developers spend less time packaging stuff and more improving Linux as a whole I am all for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Give it a try and let me know what packages are you missing, void linux is pretty complete, not bleeding edge but super stable. (A contributor and daily driver of void linux)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The logo on their site is cool, it spins when you wave your mouse pointer over it. Worth the price of admission.

[–] manifex 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll check it out!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I need a Void fork for beginners

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There's an image pre-built with XFCE. If you're still not happy with Void, due to the TUI installer, et c., it's probably a bad distro-choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Void is inherently not a very beginner friendly distro. It's one of my favorites, but its not geared towards beginners at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Void was a candidate for a distribution on my main machine some weeks or two months ago when I wanted to try something new after ten years of Arch. There were changes that required a reinstall so I thought why not change. I settled on NixOS in the end though. I believe Void is closer to Arch in the sense that it's a traditional rolling release distribution?

Edit: even the article states

The main reason for this is that it is primarily aimed at advanced users, and the closest thing to Void we can think of is Arch.

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