Void

Reader supplied reviews for Void Average rating 9.2 from 210 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: -- 202502022024031420230628202210012021093020191109201811112017100720150221 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: 20250202 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-03-07 Votes: 0 From my point of view, I feel like this distro has potential, but there are a lot of annoying aspects and complications that stop me from giving it a good rating. First, there's the fact that it doesn't have a graphical installer, which can be overlooked since many distros don't have one, but even the installation script they provide is super limited and doesn't seem to have gotten much attention over time. It led me to an error screen more than once. Another really frustrating thing is that not all the package names are in lowercase; some have uppercase letters, and it’s case-sensitive. So, even if you type the name correctly in lowercase, it’ll return an error saying the package wasn’t found. There are some "restricted" packages you can compile yourself from a recipe, but you have to clone the entire GitHub repo to do so, not just the recipe like in Arch’s AUR. To me, that's a huge waste of space. But the main issue I have is that I don’t feel the "amazing performance" that people claim. In fact, the system seems to get slower with each update. There was one time I had to roll back to a snapshot with an older kernel just to keep the system usable. People often focus too much on RAM usage and get fooled by it, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect the system’s actual performance. Lastly, I constantly have internet connection issues on Void. Sometimes when I boot up my computer, my network interface just isn’t found, like it’s not even there anymore. Dealing with this kind of issue all the time really kills the motivation to keep using it, which is why I had to replace it for now. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20250202 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-06 Votes: 3 Idk know for how long I use Void. Maybe 6 years or so. I came from Devuan which is still a good distro but Void is faster and rolling, which is a favor for me. There is not much to say. Xbps and runit are working like a charm. A large update is like an explosion of package install / overwrites. Not a critic or not a critic to Void alone is the missing ability to script the whole system. A simple version of Guix so to say. But this is not a real critic just an inspiration for a meta-package-manager. Void is a fast and high quality distribution. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20250202 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-04 Votes: 10 Void Linux is one of the fastest distros I've ever used! Stable, did not crash once since 6 months. I use KDE Plasma because I really dislike XFCE. There are custom images with KDE Plasma preinstalled. packages with .deb or .rpm can't be installed, because Void Linux uses the xbps package manager. It's very lightweight and fast, but only some of the software is available yet. Hope this will change soon, because I'm missing some software. Xbps-src is availabe, where you can install additional software from. In general, I really like this distro and will still use it as my 2nd OS to get noticed about updates Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 210 reader reviews of Void...