Void

Reader supplied reviews for Void Average rating 9.2 from 114 review(s) What are your thoughts on Void? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- current201811112017100720150221 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 20181111 Rating: 10 Date: 2018-12-13 Votes: 0 Best light distribution without systemd. Stable and fast. Unique. Good luck, long live for it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2018-12-13 Votes: 0 This is a really killer distro. I've been spending the last year or so simplifying my system as much as possible, removing every piece of software that I can, but there's only so far you can go with that on a mainstream distro before you run into problems. With some time, some experience, and some persistence, this distro can be made to really sing. I had some problems with the setup, but they could all be overcome, and it probably had to do with my unusual hardware (nvme ssd). All the necessary packages are present, and when it's missing ones I used to think I needed, it offeres a better way to do it anyway. XBPS is a very powerful package manager, and even gives me access to a list of all manually-installed packages so that I can keep track of my installation and clean up after myself when I finish projects. Very, very fast as well. Much better than Aptitude, Zypper, Synaptic, etc. Additionally, by using runit instead of systemd, so much memory and time is saved. I stay under 200M ram usage for the majority of my work, and I haven't even done much optimization. The boot process is smooth and quick, as is the shutdown. Ran into some problems with the shutdown command, but init to runlevels 0 and 6 works perfectly. If you're going to use this on an enterprise network, like at a university, I recommend using Network Manager for your networking, even though it is more bloated than wpa-supplicant. It will just take you less time, and hardly costs but a few MiB of ram. But maybe I'm just lazy? All in all, a great distro for those who hate bad software. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20181111 Rating: 10 Date: 2018-12-08 Votes: 3 Super easy to setup wireguard, runs and makes a secure connection with one command. Has support for all the common drivers. Setup is easy, no frills but nothing forgotten. No bloat on install. Community maintains all the packages you'd want in a customizable general-use OS (namely IceCat browser for me). 10/10 Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 114 reader reviews of Void...