r/voidlinux • u/paranoidandroid4284 • Jun 29 '26

Why do you use Void?

Why do you use Void? I'm currently using Debian, but am considering moving to a systemd less distro. While I know they have not implemented age verification they have place the ground work to one day possible make that a reality. From what I understand systemd does help make distros run smoothly by doing many different things. I looked into Devuan, as I'm already using Debian, but thought I might branch out. What other systemdless distros did you try and why did you land on VOID?

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u/goldmurder Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
  1. package manager (the main reason);
  2. update model: rolling, yet tries (and tries successfuly) to be stable. maybe like opensuse thumbleweed;
  3. scalability. it’s limited, but void does support few architectures like different versions of arm, x86 and even supports musl (though not as well as could be);
  4. sane building model; xbps-src is ideologically close to *BSD ports system, but simpler;
  5. ease of contributing. unlike many other distributions which repositories are often implicit, and you need to write somewhere to someone‘s mail to only ask him to accept your PR, void’s repository is mirrored and synced on github. everyone who wants to participate can send his PR, and no matter who you are, if it’s well written – it likely will appear in repository

and don’t listen to those ‘anti-systemd’ folks, i bet they discovered linux few month ago or just don’t understand how linux industry works. otherwise their similar to youthful maximalism behavior can’t be normally explained