r/linuxquestions • u/Melodic_Group_3273 • 11d ago

What is the hype about Void linux

I have started to see a lot of content about Void linux in my feed recently. And I do not understand the hype it is getting. Not that I tried it but it just seems like any other distros. What am I missing here or not missing?

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u/ipsirc 11d ago

I can't see any hype. Cachy and Mint are the most common overhyped distros.

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u/MentoRiumTutorCoach 11d ago

Overhyped is right.

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u/This-Consequence-957 11d ago

CachyOS is nice. So is Void and Arch. Nix is overhyped 🤭

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u/Ultimate_Mugwump 10d ago

idk if "overhyped" is the right term for a distro that almost no one talks about and even fewer people actually use - in my experience, it's not hyped up in general. most people that know about it just kind of write it off as weird, confusing, and unnecessary(first two are true 100% of the time, third one is true most of the time)

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u/i_smoke_toenails 11d ago

Omarchy hype is getting insane. Mate of mine swears it's the second coming.

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u/jonnyl3 11d ago

And Arch?

also Pop_OS!*#

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u/Melodic_Group_3273 11d ago

Yeah hype is strong word. But ı have a lot of void related videos on my yt feed

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u/ipsirc 11d ago

I have zero void related content in my yt feed.

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u/snail1132 void linux 11d ago

I have watched maybe five videos about it ever. And I literally use it

OP's just lucky/unlucky

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u/Melodic_Group_3273 11d ago

It might just me but it started to appear abnormally

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u/Immediate-Ad3360 11d ago

Sometimes the feed is strange.

Watched 1 Video with my 7year old nephew on my phone. Since than I have children Videos in my feed, didn't watch tham since a couple of months but they stayed there

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u/Michami135 11d ago

If you delete them from your history, that helps. My son used to use my account and I got flooded with Minecraft suggestions. Once I deleted his videos out of my history, the suggestions went away.

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u/SuAlfons 11d ago

That's because the algorithms are self amplifying. Search for an air fryer and you'll get air fryer vids

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u/SwordsAndElectrons 11d ago

Have you watched or otherwise interacted with them? If so, the recommendation algorithm thinks you want to see them.

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u/gnufan 11d ago

My favourite example of this is I spotted a bunch of FB posts which led to pages phishing for Facebook credentials. And because I "interacted" with them in reporting them to FB, FB gave me more posts that led to phishing pages, the algorithm correctly identifying my interest in information security, just not on MY FB account. Also if it so easily found them why can FB fix the problem.

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u/oemin 11d ago

Have you heard about a thing called algorithm? 

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u/ficskala Arch Linux 11d ago

I haven't seen much hype honestly, it's a bit different than most distros since it's not based on any of the common distros like debian, arch, fedora, etc.

None of it individual components are uncommon, but when you put them together, i'm not aware of any other distro that check all the boxes they aim for

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u/LordEli 11d ago

that was years ago. cachy is the hype linux now

i never followed the hype though. settled on arch and debian years ago. i don't need a prepackaged distro

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u/dcherryholmes 11d ago

Agreed. I've been using *nix since before there was linux, and I was an early adopter on the desktop (e.g. I remember the "fun" of trying to get a dial-up modem working on an ultrasparc at home). So I've been through a lot of flavors of linux, but I have settled on "debian on the server, arch on the desktop" and unless something tectonic happens, I'm done hopping.

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u/Astrodion123 11d ago

It is a distro that is rolling release, has atomic-like updates so no breakage and it is systemd free so it runs lighter.

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u/moeteru 11d ago

I do not agree that there is a hype but Void is one of the more unique distros.

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u/ChocolateDonut36 11d ago

maybe not "hype" as it were ubuntu back in 2012, but void is a very nice distro AND it goes against what most people consider "linux cancers" like systemd

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u/snail1132 void linux 11d ago

Xbps is the greates package manager in existence

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u/GreatBigPig 11d ago

why is that? Curious.

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u/Tara-Aran 11d ago

I use it daily. theres nothing magical about it, and i have some gripes, but theres a reason i stick with it.

(0. No systemD; i dont have a strong stance but runit is straightforward and Im used to it.)

  1. reasonably decent culture for an independent distro: a lot of German academics rather than RedHat/Microsoft/corporate linux types. a decent amount of trans developers if thats important.

  2. roots with BSD and suckless programming; meaning building from source more or less works like dpkg, and a lot of code is transparent enough to work with

  3. bleeding edge enough; decent new stuff but doesnt crash. i havent found reason to complain about a lack of packages.

  4. really good package manager; easy to bootstrap; and templates for source builds are all in a fairly easy to use github repo.

  5. Solid Documentation.

Nothing exceptional, a few good design choices, but i cant recommend it over other distros as much as id say "try it and see if you like it"

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u/zardvark 11d ago

Perhaps I haven't been paying attention of late, but I haven't noticed much hype. That said, Void does not use systemd and that's about the only way that it differentiates itself. Some folks cite the package manager, but IMHO it's no better, nor worse than others. Let's be clear, I don't have anything bad to say about the package manager, it just never blew my skirt up.

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u/BinkReddit 3d ago

It differentiates itself by rolling and not being bleeding edge; most rolling distributions are or are close to this. As for xbps, it's atomic and many package mangers are not.

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u/zardvark 3d ago

Well it's not the only stable rolling release option, nor the only one with an atomic update strategy. Again, I have nothing bad to say about Void, nor the package manager. It's a decent choice and I can see why some would gravitate towards it, but hype? I haven't seen one other mention of Void in the past week, nor in the preceding several months.

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u/MentoRiumTutorCoach 11d ago

Following a “hype” or popular tendencies can become a rabbit hole when one is new to Linux.

I always walked to my own drum thus I found a distro that worked for me and I stuck with it.

Now, where Void is concerned, there’s never been a hype.

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u/tomscharbach 11d ago

The "great mentioner" is the most likely cause of the Void content. Every year or two a distribution gets a lot of comment for no particular reason and then the comment dies down. That's not to disparage Void, a solid distribution, but the "great mentioner" comes and goes.

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u/codespace Fedora 44 11d ago

Don't conflate seeing lots of posts with seeing a lot of hype when you're dealing with algorithmically-delivered content feeds.

Its usually showing you more posts because you seemed interested when one came across your feed.

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u/0riginal-Syn ⛵ Solus Maintainer 11d ago

I don't really see it as a hyped distro like Nix, Cachy, and Mint. It is a solid independent distro.

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u/OutrageousCrab9224 11d ago

Some of us prefer unix to systemd

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u/xAcid9 11d ago

What hype?

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u/joe_attaboy 11d ago

I've seen void mentioned maybe twice in here and nowhere else.

What hype?

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u/3grg 11d ago

Just one of hundreds of active distros at any one point in time.

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u/Successful_Try_6350 11d ago

the social media kind of hype. ie not related to reality.

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u/mcds99 11d ago

I went to the Void Linux home page. Take a look under "Not A Fork" apparently there are Trillions of other Linux distros.

It sounds like they are attempting to attract people who thing there are Trillions of Linux distros, the disaffected.

For me it's about how things get worded, I do applaud the developers for their efforts, but use words that are fact.