Void

Reader supplied reviews for Void Average rating 9.2 from 223 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: 2025-06-11 Votes: 8 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 Version: 20250202 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-02 Votes: 10 For a small project that isn't community-funded (they don't accept donations, although they do seek contributors to the project code), they have a fairly good infrastructure and a medium-sized repository; considering they don't have a bug tracking system, it's extremely stable. All this is thanks to the fact that the base is simple, making it relatively easier for a small team to maintain. A clear example that sometimes less is more. For this reason, it's completely configurable, and the system rarely gets in the way. It also has its downsides: internal disputes within the development team have resulted in certain key parts being practically abandoned. Its xbps-src compiler has bugs that haven't been fixed for many years, and in the last five years, it has barely received any improvements; in fact, it has lost some features. The same goes for the package manager. It hasn't had many updates (most of its version changes are to force a recompile of the base during libc updates). (XBPS lacks a mechanism to force a recompile of packages when the compilation base changes.). Runit is very simple which makes it fast and stable, but if more complex daemons are required, with multiple dependencies or startup phases, it is a pain in the ass to generate halfway functional runit services for it. Althought that excellent distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 223 reader reviews of Void...