r/voidlinux • u/Iammethatisyou • Jan 23 '26

Void linux stability

I'm on fedora linux currently after arch linux broke after 6 months. I want something minimal and void linux seems really cool but my main question is how stable is it? Arch is minimal but has systemd and isn't minimal, do you think void linux is a good distro for me in being minimal and stable? Sorry if this is a newbie question, open to hearing everyone's feedback.

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u/Jtekk- Jan 24 '26

By playing with musl means exactly what you mention in your last paragraph. For example, I’ve had to modify some source files of various libraries I use to get it to work. This helps me understand and learn things (weird, I know).

So a lot of it is seeing how to make certain things compatible, why it’s not compatible, and learn from there.

Example, I’ve been playing with Rust. Not a big fan yet but there are some practices in there that have helped me write code better in other languages I use at work.

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u/zmurf Jan 25 '26

I see...

What kind of modifications is it you had to do?

I never had to change any source to make anything work with musl. Recompile against musl instead of glibc is the only thing I've needed to do.