Thread 106592487

>independent distro, ie. not just a shitty arch or debian fork
>prioritizes stability while also being rolling release
>unique package manager written from scratch and it's fast as fuck
>boot times are fast as fuck
>uses the best init system by default (runit)
>supports both musl and glibc
>minimal by default
what is there not to like about this distro? it's like fartix but better

debian or whatever just werks and is supported by everything i care about

Trans people are annoying

>>106592487 (OP)
I want something that just works. Special snowflake distros with dozens of custom parts don't just work.

Both Void and Alpine are my favorite distros because of how bloat-free they are.

>>106592487 (OP)
If I were apple, microsoft, or even google my goal would be to fan the distro virus.

Most distro devs shits all retarded, atomized autists.

Imagine the top 100 distros on distrowatch, and the actual 10-20 developers of them, if they actually worked together.

>>106592595
These are companies, their only goal is to make as much money as possible. How would this let them make more money?

it's fun til you can't find something you want to install

>>106592487 (OP)
>>independent distro, ie. not just a shitty arch or debian fork
Newb question: doesn't that mean a high risk of incompatibility with hardware and software?

>>106592487 (OP)
I think it's interesting but there's nothing it specifically does that I need so I'd rather just use Arch. I also find the maintainers to be genuine cunts.

>>106592860
>muh money
that's not their only goal, but its a classic divide and conquer strategy.
The only polished real linux distros for normies is Chrome and Steam.

The linux foundation is a company, Debian is a company, they just don't have shareholders, only a board of trustees and donors.

i am looking at the website and there is nothing about why i should use it.

>>106592595
You have seen the retards that post on /g/, distro maintainers are the same kind of autists
>reeeeee this uses [thing I don't like], I will remake it using [thing I do like]
These people cannot cooperate with anyone, and they cannot ever finish anything. You don't want them contributing to any software you use

>>106592487 (OP)
Why would I use it over Arch?
How good it is for gayming?

Does it have an AUR equivalent?

>>106592487 (OP)
Linux sucks. All Linuxs suck. However, Void and Slackware suck the least, so you should use one of those.

My only complaints about Void are:
1. I hate Dracut, because it is retarded and doesn't work. Compiling my own kernel and using betterinitramfs was my workaround. YMMV.
2. The package system builds up an astonishing about of clutter. Be sure to run "xbps-remove -O" from time to time. And go delete old kernels, carefully, from time to time.

Aside from that, you're good to go with Void.

p.s. as for BLM and tranny rumors, all I can tell you is that the Void IRC channel is, well ... you might call it right wing. ;)

>>106592487 (OP)
It also still has a working and up-to-date i686/32-Bit version. Installed it for the first time a few days ago, on an old Laptop. It is really fast and definitely more minimal than Arch, I even had to manually install and enable services for dbusd and elogind, because they aren't technically necessary. Glibc / musl choice is also nice. And Runit is fucking amazing. Symlinking is one of the best features of a UNIX / POSIX environment, so using them for service management is awesome.

>>106592487 (OP)
Artix exists

>>106592487 (OP)
>>prioritizes stability while also being rolling release
the only distro that has been like this for me is fedora, I'm skeptical of anything else.
I'd like a non-redhat version of this but I remember reading void didn't have that many packages compared to other distros, and I think their version of mpv was older than the one compared to fedora too.
The ecosystem seems kind of fragile to me with not enough people unlike arch.

and they hate /g/ literally, bunch of trannies

>>106593344
arch trannies are so obnoxiously retarded

I hate niggers

>>106593988
Slackware is abandon ware and obsolete. Literally stuck in the 90s and managed by one single dude.

>>106592487 (OP)
>ponyos

>>106592487 (OP)
best init is s6.
runit is good though.

>>106594768
>abandon ware
>managed by one single dude
pick one, tranny.

op is glowing

>>106593227
oh look, its office hours and the corporate shills are all pepped up on coffee ready to steer the narrative. everything is a company, we are all participating in the economy dont forget that! money is paramount, please validate my existance.

>>106592487 (OP)
retards who don't know how to partition a disk get filtered

>>106592890
Nah. Hardware compatibility is provided by the Linux kernel, which is the same as on any other distro. And AFAIK Void isn't one of those meme distros that chose to ship an ancient version of the kernel because muh stability or to not ship certain proprietary blobs because muh stability. The software ecosystem isn't fundamentally different from other distros either, at least if you chose the glibc version.
Though if some software isn't available through the repos (or flatpack or whatever), you might have to compile from source or write the package yourself which is a PITA, assuming you even know how. And I guess you could always find some garbage proprietary software shipping as a binary that assumes certain versions of libraries to be present which causes problems, but then you might be out of luck with any distro that's not the one being targeted by the developers of that software. Best to avoid such software altogether, if you can.

>>106592487 (OP)
tranny commie distro

>>106592487 (OP)
it doesn't use systemd, and back in time there was some drama with the main maintainer (guy who wrote the package manager) and the rest of the team; so its future was unknown. don't know things are today. i remember that some packages were often out of date. or would quickly become abandoned.

>>106593988
>Void IRC channel is, well ... you might call it right win
let me guess, it has 10 users because everyone else uses the discord?

>>106595759
Their irc channel has over 400 users. I'm gonna join and see how active it is. Other irc channels related to linux are rather active and I prefer them all over discord shit.

>>106592542
/thread

>>106592487 (OP)
Turns out most people like systemd (or don't care)

>>106592487 (OP)
why would you want something that's fast 'as fuck'?

Also I'm not an updooter and only reboot my computer once every couple of weeks, so it's not worth for the potentially 3 seconds difference at boot to tinker with a non-systemd distro for many ours to get trivial things such as a graphical environmnet working

>>106594808
he can't keep up anymore, it's getting ridiculous. if you want to install qemu, you have to compile gcc by yourself.