Have been using it for more than a year... Excluding the absence of systemd it's an exact copy of Debian.

The single issue I have had so far, is that backports weren't marked as non-automatic: easily solved with a manual pin-priority rule.

I mailed them about it, so it could be solved now.

I've been using Void Linux for a couple of weeks now on my new machine at work and I've been enjoying it a lot. It brings a BSD'ish elegance to Linux.

No issues hardware-wise either so far:

- Intel Core i7-7700K

- MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon

- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC 6G

- Samsung 960 EVO 1TB (M.2, NVME)

I've been a Void user for a year and some months now. It's a great system. Xbps (the package manager) is so ridiculously fast, it puts zypper, apt and dnf to shame.

The base system is extremely light and nimble. Getting FDE up and running was a breeze, even with the fairly barebones installer, and it being a rolling release makes it very nice as well. It's maybe a bit too bleeding edge to run on servers, but as a workstation distribution, I can't fault it.

Disclaimer: I'm donating monthly to the project, and am currently trying to contribute a few servers to the build farm, so I'm probably very biased.

this looks interesting. I have been looking to replace ubuntu as my weapon of choice for servers for some time now. I am hesitant of the rolling release idea though. I like the idea that my servers remain in a specific state, but remain up to date with security patches, and don't like the idea of spending time fixing update issues. How is that handled in Void?

Did you expect hardware issues? AFAIK that's all handled by the kernel.

I had expected more issues getting the official Nvidia drivers to work but all it took was a package install and a reboot.

Ah, right, Nvidia is always... interesting.

I'll give a try.