I currently use Manjaro as my daily driver, but it is bloatware to be honest. I want to switch to more minimalist distro so i ended up thinking on Void. So any advice? How is package manager? Community? Softwares? Documentation?

  • brombek@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I use it on my work PC and on VPSes. You can deeply understand the boot process in just few hours of reading the man pages, scripts and even the source code of runit (there is not much of it!) which is very empowering for an advanced user/admin. XBPS is very fast and lean, making your own packages is easy and the templates for that are clean, the process is well documented. Updates are safe to run and having it rolling means that you can avoid doing large migrations; software is fresh and security updates are prompt. People on IRC are helpful and nice. For documentation the basics are on the website, everything else is already documented on Gentoo and Arch wikis anyway. So if you have some skills and want to be in control of your own computing experience there is no better distro than Void Linux IMHO.

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      3 years ago

      Oh, thank you for sharing your experiement, my most fear is to break my system after updates.