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Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?
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I'm not really using it anymore aside from it still being on my server (i simply haven't switched it to my new distro yet), but what made me switch to it is xbps. It's lightning fast but seems more solid than pacman, and can easily update a system that hasn't been updated in years.
I also ended up liking the simplicity of runit, and it made me realize i just don't like using systemd all that much. Because of that i now tend to look out for other non-systemd distros as well. A few months ago i switched my desktop and laptop over to guix.