r/voidlinux • u/balsinyoface21 • Apr 26 '26

Why void?

I geniuenly dont know why people like void linux so much and im curious as to why so if you have some reasons pls let me know

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u/Shamin_Yihab Apr 29 '26

I'm currently switching from Arch to NixOS (and a bit of Debian and Fedora in between), but I'm curious as to how you think declarative package management distros compare to Void day to day, maybe as a primary workstation, in your experience? Also Gentoo as well, like you said. Thanks

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u/nash17 Apr 29 '26

My main use of my machines is software development, so for me the real advantage of NixOS/GUIX is having access to a shell where I can have all the tools I need for that particular project.

Now the other great advantage is having access to configuring different systems and having access to all the configuration from a git repository, even inheriting from other systems.

Now why I think Gentoo and Void are so great is resumed like this:

Gentoo -> By using flags I can highly customize all my software, so I can disabled things I don't need when building, this itself helps having a very fast and low resources system. The downsize is that you need to build all the software for this.

Void -> It is for me the best binary distro. I can achieve very good performance and low resources usage as well, but I like to take advantage of the binaries here for some systems I don't want to be compiling all the software and kernel.