Comment by 🚀 Hein
Re: "Void Linux is the most stable rolling distribution I have…"
Great that it's working so well for you! That's exactly why I love rolling distros for private use. Anecdotally, I have exactly this experience on Arch 😁 running the same installation for close to 15 years now. Did a similar update with a 3-5 year gap on an old laptop a few years back, and was left with a feeling of bliss when not a single issue occurred.
Apr 13 · 3 weeks ago
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Interested to try it
🥬 lamb-duh [OP] · Apr 14 at 15:35:
I have exactly this experience on Arch 😁
That's good to hear! At least some of the problems I had on Arch but not Void will come down to having all the experience and knowledge I gained while using Arch.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Apr 14 at 16:03:
I'd not thought of that, but appreciate the stability. I've dabbled with artix before (becacuse non-systemd), but when I came back to one machine after abt 8mo of disuse, updates broke the whole thing somehow. So thanks for the reccommend.
Same here, been on it nearly a decade. Overview at my capsule here: gemini://splint.rs/void.gmi
@ghost Your article about Void is great. Got a bit scared when you started with "Systemd is fine" but that quickly dissipated.
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Void Linux is the most stable rolling distribution I have ever used. I pulled out a computer I haven't used in a while. It's running Void. Did a full system update, absolutely no issues. I took a look at what it was running before the update. A couple packages that have a date for a version were dated 2021. Before I got onto Void I used Arch for a year or two. It gave me so much trouble. In that short time I had to do a couple fresh installs because updating something or other requires manual…