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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apologies for the late reply, my internet went down for a day. Anyway, before I was using a distro called Antergos (basically Arch with an easy installer and a few custom packages). When it was discontinued, some people waited for what is basically its spiritual successor, EndeavourOS. Others switched to using vanilla Arch. But I decided to use Void after some research, as to me it was Arch but with a few advantages to my favour:

At the time, Void had an installation wizard while Arch didn't (you manually installed it by following the wiki, basically). Now, archinstall exists, I guess.
It's still rolling-release, so you can update whenever you want easily, but at the same time not bleeding-edge, so packages don't break as easily.
Unlike most Linux distros, it uses runit as the init system instead of systemd. I'm no rabid systemd hater, but you gotta admit that runit is just easier to learn how to use.
And finally, by adopting a non-major distro, I just wanted to promote Linux apps being compatible with as many distros as possible, and not just either Debian, Fedora, or Arch (or whatever derivatives exist thereof).

(Also, happy cake day! I didn't know Lemmy had cake days until now hehe :)