Just learned about it recently. It has received a lot of praise as a rolling release distro. Also it uses runit instead of systemd.

It has been praised also for being more stable and better designed than Arch.

And I wonder how it compares to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed,

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    As a less technical user I really liked my little bit of experience with it and it is many things I want that I can’t otherwise find all together in a single distro, but I’m not really equipped for a minimal distro for the time being

    Unimportant to most folks but worth knowing there is no package kit implementation for xbps, so you can’t use desktop environment provided software stores for native applications, only for flatpacks

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      Oh that’s interesting. I’d have never bumped into that DE stores thing.

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        Yeah, its probably not applicable to most folks, but I like browsing packages with images, icons, and descriptions, so for me its a tradeoff.

        I believe there was one or more graphical package managers but they were QT based or otherwise not GTK and I was using gnome (I know, I care too much how things look lol), and I don’t know if they were actively being maintained. I know there was more than one at one time, but I wanna say one of them got abandoned, and I’m not actually sure if the other was being actively developed anymore either by the time I was playing with void