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Void Linux is, to a first approximation, "Arch without the BS". Because it ships a musl version, and because Lennart thinks anything but Linux/glibc is a niche
by bitwize 3y ago
Void Linux is, to a first approximation, "Arch without the BS". Because it ships a musl version, and because Lennart thinks anything but Linux/glibc is a niche corner case which can simply be ignored, Void does not use systemd but rather runit. (Indeed, it's the only distro I know of to officially switch away from systemd to something else.) Also, there are few, if any, distro-breaking flag days. I once blindly typed 'xbps-install -Syu' into a Raspberry Pi 2 that had fallen 2-3 years behind, and everything just chugged along and updated without a hitch.
Source: I use Void, btw.
- rvense 3y agoFWIW I recently reverted to Arch after five years because Void broke itself completely, but it was otherwise a decent OS.
- cyberpunk 3y agoYou mean the distro has gone in the wrong direction, or your specific five year old installation died somehow?
- rvense 3y agoThe latter, an upgrade gone awry and I couldn't be bothered to fix it. I use Arch on my work laptop (a concession to modernity and having easy access to whatever), so it was simple to move my primary Good Screen to it as well.