Void

Reader supplied reviews for Void Average rating 9.1 from 138 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: current Rating: 10 Date: 2019-05-26 Votes: 62 PROS: -Fast -Lightweight -Easy Installer -Runit -Rolling updates -Colse to BSD CONS: -Lack of documentation Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20181111 Rating: 5 Date: 2019-05-17 Votes: 5 I tried to install this on the internal eMMC of an HP Stream 11-ah117wm laptop, using the Xfce-based live image from a USB disk. The installer is very basic; I don't mind the interface, but it couldn't connect to my Wi-Fi after I entered the password (and I had to enter the SSID manually), and it doesn't provide for encrypted filesystems. Unfortunately, the install failed at the GRUB stage with “unknown filesystem” with not much explanation of why, and dumped me back into a root shell. I was using what I thought was a pretty basic ESP+XFS partitioning scheme. I tried to put together my own chroot and fix it from there, but I got stuck and pretty much gave up. I was looking into XBPS via digging into the source and the ports tree, and have mixed feelings about it; I didn't get to try it in practice. It looks mostly good, but my use case involves it being easy to add custom packages. xbps-rindex looks good for that, and the template format has some interesting features. There's not that much documentation in general. Some of the documentation is out of date and still refers to voidlinux.eu, which can be a disproportionately annoying stumbling block occasionally. It feels like the kind of distro I'll want to try again later if it gets some more polish. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 9 Date: 2019-05-14 Votes: 10 Near perfect. Had some small amount of leg work to do before things would work as I wanted, nothing system breaking though. I installed the musl version out of curiosity, then installed i3, the end result is a super fast and super lightweight distribution, which gives me the flexibility I need for my daily tasks. I love XBPS, it really is easy to use and the commands remind me of the BSD's. Not much else to be said really, other than try Void out for yourself - If you have used Arch, or the BSD's then you will find Void to be very sane. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 138 reader reviews of Void...