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I have been running Void Linux since Debian switched to SystemD both at work and at home (including playing Skyrim SSE on Steam using Proton, or StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 using Lutris) .

It is a very nice distro although I would not recommend it to beginners since it is a little rough around the edges if you want to do full disk encryption during installation.

Initially I switched to FreeBSD and then OpenBSD but I missed Linux conveniences like native cloud sync clients[1], Steam, Docker, support for the hardware I already had, etc.

[1] this was before I discovered Rclone



I use void now on everything, work, home even my Raspberry PIs. Can confirm that installation is a PITA. If you want something more fancy than the standard installation like an encrypted boot disk you won't get anything running without touching chroot a few times.

But once it runs it runs! The most "stable" rolling release distro I have tried so far. Something that can not be said about Gentoo.




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