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    By importance, descending:

    First, I don’t like people promoting systemd. I don’t need it more than other init systems. It’s about picking the right group.

    Second, I want a simple distribution so I use Void, which famously uses runit. It’s about being lazy.

    Third, I don’t like the idea of it sprouting dependencies which it shouldn’t. It’s about paranoia. See recent news with a backdoor which wouldn’t work if not for this.

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      Why Void? Genuine question.

      I was trying different distros to replace my Zorin, I tried NixOS (didn’t like the setup), GoboLinux (really like the idea, but it’s very buggy). I ended up using EndevoursOS (arch btw) and I really love pacman/AUR, but I’m still not married to it

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        I actually don’t remember why I lost my patience and just tried Void then (4 years ago). Maybe had something to do with installing a Linux on a laptop after using only FreeBSD for some time, and sound setup and brightness control being confusing (actually everything in Linux is more clumsy and messy, so wanted a simple distribution).

        Debian I like, but it has a bit older versions of packages, as everyone knows, and also kernel versions, thus hardware support.

        Fedora - I don’t like the culture.

        OpenSUSE - I like it, but didn’t bother back then and now why change anything.

        Arch - I don’t like the idea of regularly solving problems which can be avoided by maintainers. AUR is attractive. The culture of clueless people proud of the fact that they installed Arch is a bit irritating.

        Gentoo and Funtoo - I like them, but time spent on compilation could be used better.

        Slackware - my favorite distribution, but it’s a bit manual, so even more chores than with Arch. I think I might try it again.

        And also Void has something just a bit similar to FreeBSD ports. I’d prefer it to be a real ports collection like in CRUX (which I might try some day), and I use pkgsrc anyway for such things now.

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            One thing that is really annoying me in AUR is how frequently thing break. Just the other day I had to tweak my settings because Hyprland pushed a breaking change.

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              The comment change?

              If so that was fun, I updated my hyprland / hy3 flakes and I was bombarded by flashing red notifications indicating I’d caused Satan to return. Trawling through all my hyprland Configs I eventually put an end to the chaos.

              If not, I guess I’ll find out next time I update my flakes lol.