Void Linux is one of those distros that many hobbyists like me have heard about. But it doesn't get a lot of hype and promotion so it's easy to forget it even exists. Especially as it's lightning fast, minimal, independent and systemd free.

However, if you haven't tried it, you may be missing out!

Like Arch, it's a minimal distro that you build up yourself. It can be installed using a live iso but the installation is an old school ncurses affair.

Not a problem for me, in fact it reminded me of Slackware.

My experience with installing and configuring Void has won me over and I've now installed it on hardware.

Yes, I'm now a fan! But the ride isn't necessarily problem free.

The documentation certainly needs work and I had an error message come up on first boot. But the error was easily fixed and in next to no time I had a system to be proud of.

I wouldn't recommend Void to new users. It definitely comes into the hobbyist/tinkerer category. But if you enjoy building your system from a minimal base you may enjoy the experience as well.

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