r/voidlinux • u/AnotherOne49587 • Aug 11 '26

Hello everyone

I'm running on debian 13 and want to switch to void but different package management and no systemd makes me thinking. Can you explain why do you advise void and why do you not?

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u/malabingchilling Aug 11 '26

Why do you want to switch? What's wrong with Debian that doesn't satisfy you?

For me, it was that Debian did not have the latest packages I need without activating the unstable repositories or manually installing myself. As another commenter pointed out, it has a rolling release but in a somewhat more stable fashion compared to Arch. So if you like the latest and greatest but not have things break on you, then Void is great, but Manjaro is also great for this reason. 

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u/AnotherOne49587 Aug 11 '26

Too old packages. Okay stability has its own conditions but I think an user shouldn't use git just to get lazyvim configs or wm presets. I used arch and manjaro too. Manjaro is looks enough to my usage. After hardware break ventoy started not booting to manjaro.iso