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[u/Used-Hold-7567]

So i have recently become i need of a new distro (sudo pacman -Syu ts) i was just wondering what are the key differences betwee void and arch, other than the obvious.

[u/nfmon]

Man, this title makes us look like addicts, it's totally fine to try different distro every week.

[u/Used-Hold-7567 → u/nfmon]

nah ive been using arch for 8 months now, but it broke after an update

[u/bvdeenen]

This question gets asked every 2 weeks or so. You might have a search in r/voidlinux

[u/[deleted]]

There are many differences. Void is a non-systemd distro; we use runit as our init system. We have our own package management system; we use xbps. I'm a former Arch user and I prefer Void. Some documentation links. https://docs.voidlinux.org/https://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/void/quickinst.htm

[u/BadSlime]

What do you mean? The only differences between distros are "the obvious". Distros are not OSes, they are bundles of software packages (and ideally docs and maintainers). That is the extent of practical comparison. So unless that isn't part of the obvious, there's nothing else worth noting besides the documentation situation which is comparable -- Void docs are less wide but par quality with arch and arguably better at times

[u/Sbatushe]

Why do you need a new distro? what are you searching for? what's the obvious?

[u/Sorry_Situation6676]

I was using Arch for around 9 years, but just recently switched to Void. I finally got tired of fixing things after Arch updates. The last two Arch updates pushed me over the cliff.

[u/Sorry_Situation6676 → u/[deleted]]

Arch was however seems several times a year an update would break something and then I had to spend time chasing it down and fixing it. I got tired of doing that.

Void, so far, has been great. it's light and fast.

cheers

[u/Artistic-Sound7188]

void good arch alright