Void

Reader supplied reviews for Void Average rating 9.2 from 224 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. 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: -- 202502022024031420230628202210012021093020191109201811112017100720150221 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 20250202 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-19 Votes: 8 Void is an interesting option to the Linux standard distribution. It doesn't utilize some of the (seemingly) standard software that distros force on us. To some, this is detrimental to VOID usage, but for others it provides a freedom that many mainstream distributions lack. Void Linux is surprisingly simple as long as the admin/user puts aside any preconceived notions of what a distro is and how it should act. Software and especially operating systems should provide the user with as much freedom as possible. This is in contrast to current policies as required by specific businesses whose primary purpose is to milk the users for as much profit as possible. The use of VOID for the primary OS offers the user a level of control that has been taken away from many Linux distributions as well as other operating systems. It seems that developers of these distributions and OS's believe that they know how the user should operate the OS in spite of said user's experience, capability and goals. These decisions may work fine for the influx of typical users such as those migrating from more prominent operating systems. IMHO, this is the primary reason that operating systems such as Void need to be protected and nurtured. Void offers the user a simple (yet surprisingly complex) environment so that users can get work done, whatever said work may be. However, it is not just for workaholics or even the typical office crew. Void offers access to more pleasant software types such as card-games (especially many solitaire variants), games based on board styled play such as Mahjong and a variety of other programs in which the user can spend their time. For example, the STEAM environment is an easily installed software suite. Steam provides the user access to a huge array of games usually offered on other platforms including RPG, adventure and other graphics oriented gaming types. That said, Void Linux is not just a platform for wasting time. There is a large variety of software for the user to access including web browsers,office tools and educational programs. One of the primary areas where users tend to dwell is software development. Software development includes a very large array of programs ranging for the base operating system and desktop environments to tools useful for text editing, music and even graphic manipulation. Sorry if I get carried away. It's just that I find Void and similar environments provide a great way of introducing new and existing users to aspects of software without forcing them to follow a specific ideology or set of ideals which may contrast with their own. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20250202 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-11 Votes: 9 Been running Void for about a year and a half now. Absolutely top distro. Not quite for beginners as you'll be missing a few apps in the repos, but it's been absolutely rock solid, fast and tweakable as desired. I'm running Openbox and love how light and fast it is. I was a habitual distro-hopper, with my other mainstay being Sparky (which I still sometimes use as it's great), but every time I consider trying out a new OS I can't bear facing something that doesn't work with my printer, or wine doesn't work, or there's random crashes, or it's bloated... Void is solid, non-systemd (for those that care), fast and well documented and it stays out of my way. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20250202 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-03 Votes: 8 void aims to be a highly configurable and stable rolling release. on that it's a 10/10 it's maybe not for everybody but for someone needing a stable base to tinker arround with to get to a unique personalized linux experience, it's perfekt. i got void on 5 different systems now, including a 32bit-netbook, an old PC of 2012 and three laptops from oldest to newest, i use a git bare repo for my dotfiles that allows me to sync my dotfiles over all these different hardware and i couldn't think of another distro where that would work as flawless as in void. i would even pay money for void if the maintainer would let me, and there are a lot other distros i would not. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 224 reader reviews of Void...