I've started using it in new installs, FUD be damned. Looking forward to the benefits.
and I'm so deep in the alphabet soup of IT, I just use IPA for new acronyms, so I say /bəˈtrəfs/.
deschutron
joined 3 years ago
Sorry, I have to correct myself:
I have 2 laptops and I used Manjaro with LXDE on the stronger one. I wanted to be ready to collaborate on any open source project and be able install all the required tools, so I went for the Arch-based thing I was most familiar with.
But void and Manjaro work so similarly for me that it's easy for me to forget.
I use it on my laptop too and have used on a desktop comp for a while. I've only done it with i3 or lxde as the desktop environment, so don't know if it has all the ease-of-use features of Xfce, Gnome or KDE work, but it's worked great for me. I want to keep Xfce Manjaro on my strongest computer, for the widest range of installable programs and things that just work - the bloat is still less and the design better than say Windows or Ubuntu, but for every other computer Void is now my favourite. Xbps does have a wide of software. It works well like another pacman. My void computers boot fast, faster than my strong computer. I worry less that it will one day have a boot error. Runit has a nice clean comandline interface for managing services like systemd and hasn't fumbled a daemon yet. It makes me wonder what trouble systemd is saving me. Though I usually leave the daemons alone either way. For community and docs, I don't know so much. I have used the wiki, which worked for me. Just checking now I see they've deprecated it in favour of other docs they're offering. Luke Smith on Youtube got me into void. He has a good intro to xpbs. I haven't yet had it stop booting because of an update that requires me to reconfigure stuff. TLDR: yes, it's fast and beatiful and at least pretty stable and useful
Hooray! Just the alliance we need to effectively counter-balance China, ourselves and our allies.