Such a cool piece of software. Use this community for anything related to linux for now, if it gets too huge maybe there will be some sort of meme/gaming/shitpost spinoff. Currently though… go nuts

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    Void seems to be surprisingly popular, I haven’t tried it. I’m a Gentoo user, any particular reason to give Void a try?

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      It’s basically like… this nice compromise between Arch and Gentoo. You got precompiled packages, but if you’d like, you can compile everything from source. xbps-src is like Portage on Gentoo, except some of the more popular packages get precompiled and put on the main repo (kernels, libraries, office suits, browsers, etc.).

      I like it cuz if you’d like, you can get nitty gritty about it, but if you’d just like things to work out if the box, just use the repos and off you go. Plus, it comes with xfce by default (if you choose the DE ISO), which is what I use, so saves me the time to set up xfce. And it has a non-free repo, so that’s also a big plus (take a proprietery package, repackage it for Void if the license allows it, if not, just leave the template in xbps-src and let users make their own package).

      Also, it’s incledibly stable for a rolling release distro. I also use it on some severs, I’ve never had a single one break something after an update. It’s not as bleeding edge as Arch, so they’d rather opt for not something as new, but more stable, which I also like.

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        I may have to check this out. Arch user here, but missing portage. That was my favorite package manager of any distro, but boy did it get old when you forgot some use flag and ended up having to recompile your entire life.

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          My previous reply went to hell (void 🤔 😂), the server seems to be overloading, lol 😂.

          I’ll reply tomorrow, it’s 2AM here now, hate to have to write everything 😂.