Void

Reader supplied reviews for Void Average rating 9.1 from 276 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: -- current202502022024031420230628202210012021093020191109201811112017100720150221 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: current Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-22 Country: Hungary Votes: 0 Void is what Arch was originally meant to be a decade or so ago, when I first tried it. It's a lean and mean rolling release distro that follows the KISS principle. It's also rock solid. No wonder many call it a stable rolling release distro: it offers the best of both worlds. Installation and configuration can be a bit messy, but having the documentation at hand and some tutorials can mitigate the pain. Speaking of which: both the documentation and the community is pretty good. The only thing that would make it better is BTRFS logical volume management in the TUI installer and a bigger repository (we can get around the latter, though). Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 3 Date: 2026-04-15 Country: Sweden Votes: 0 I tried Void for the first time earlier this year and used it until the beginning of this month, so roughly about three months. What I can say is that it is definitely a distro that deserves more love for what it sets out to do, but in its current state, it is hard to stick with unless you are okay with putting in some effort to fix things along the way. I ran into several performance issues, as well as some problems getting the system to recognise connected devices like my external SSD and Bluetooth mouse. Even though the resource usage looked relatively low on paper, the system often felt sluggish with certain programs, which is something I had not experienced before on other systems using the same setup and configurations. These, along with a few smaller annoyances, gradually wear down the overall experience. In the end, that is what made me decide to move away from it, at least for now. Maybe I will give it another shot in the future when I have more time to deal with these kinds of issues. For now, though, it just does not quite cut it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-14 Country: United States Votes: 17 A distribution that deserves much more! The Void distribution is one of the fastest, lightest, most cleanly designed Linux distributions I've had the pleasure of using. Everything is trim, efficient, and surprisingly fast. The core philosophy is unusual: unlike many mainstream distributions, Void is not based on Debian, Ubuntu, or Arch — it is built from scratch, offering a clean, bloat-free experience. That independence is rare and genuinely matters. The custom build package manager is fast and very reliable. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 276 reader reviews of Void...