Void Linux’s average rating soars high on DistroWatch, making it a must-try for advanced users. Learn why it is winning hearts.
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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.
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.
If you're concerned about package availability, you can check here: https://voidlinux.org/packages/ to see if all the packages you need are supported.