After years of running a rolling distro (gentoo) I had come to realize that it was a bit of a distinction without a difference. Major updates simply felt less planned than a ‘traditional’ distro.
I also am on Void since past couple of years. Paired it with LxQt DE for sometime. I didn’t have much opinion (or even cared) about systemd (which Void eschews in favor of runit) when I chose it in my distro hopping days. It’s lean and clean though package repos slightly smaller than competing ones.
I had a very good ride with Void for 3 years, a polished distro which taught me to play with init.
But a lot of GNU packages are not packaged, and lastly I saw a news regarding the distro being split between pro and free version so …
I used Antix after that, but AntiX can really get behind on package and kernel version, so I stumbled back on Devuan, and voilà ! With backport, Devuan is really like Debian without the hassle of never knowing if your system us really shut down when you close your laptop (systemd ! 🫵)
Good read. Although I recently moved to void Linux as I prefer rolling release instead of a major upgrade every few years.
You still get “major releases” with rolling distros. They’re just smaller. Updating to new plasma/gnome versions, new glibc, etc.
i should have been clearer, there is no distro major release. packages have major release sure, but no large distro upgrade.
After years of running a rolling distro (gentoo) I had come to realize that it was a bit of a distinction without a difference. Major updates simply felt less planned than a ‘traditional’ distro.
I also am on Void since past couple of years. Paired it with LxQt DE for sometime. I didn’t have much opinion (or even cared) about systemd (which Void eschews in favor of runit) when I chose it in my distro hopping days. It’s lean and clean though package repos slightly smaller than competing ones.
cool, i use sway / wayland. really happy with how it all runs, although only been on it a couple of weeks after over a decade on arch.
I had a very good ride with Void for 3 years, a polished distro which taught me to play with init.
But a lot of GNU packages are not packaged, and lastly I saw a news regarding the distro being split between pro and free version so …
I used Antix after that, but AntiX can really get behind on package and kernel version, so I stumbled back on Devuan, and voilà ! With backport, Devuan is really like Debian without the hassle of never knowing if your system us really shut down when you close your laptop (systemd ! 🫵)