• packetloss
    8·
    2 years ago

    Always interested in checking out new distro’s, and I’ve heard of Void in the past, but my only concern with these “independent” distro’s is their package support and availability.

    Finding packages for Debian, or Redhat based distro’s is relatively easy due to the sheer number of forked distros and community involvement.

    I’ll still probably fire it up in a VM to see what it’s like.

    • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world
      91·
      2 years ago

      I don’t see that as a problem nowadays, more and more the desktop side of things is moving to cloud native, you got all sorts of containers for apps not packaged in your distro repos, containers like flatpak, snap, appimage etc…, and if you just want something available in other distro you could use distrobox.

      It’s quite cool and if it means developers spend less time packaging stuff and more improving Linux as a whole I am all for it.

      • packetloss
        1·
        2 years ago

        Fair enough! Those are some good points. I guess it’s my “linux server” admin coming out where on the server/service side of things not everything is as easy as a flatpak. If we’re lucky we get an official container from the developer.

    • CjkOvPDwQW@lemmy.pt
      4·
      2 years ago

      Give it a try and let me know what packages are you missing, void linux is pretty complete, not bleeding edge but super stable. (A contributor and daily driver of void linux)

    • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      2 years ago

      I tried void once and I recall that their package manager is very flexible, fast as hell and can be extended similar to what AUR does with xbps-src.

      it runs without systemd. I did not like the absence however void itself is (probably because of no systemd) really blazing fast.