Yes, I’ve heard of void, and I may have even had it on my PC for a while in the past, but I’ve never tried it thoroughly.
But it should still be as user-friendly as arch, more or less. It’s definitely not for beginners, but I can’t say much about stability.
Personally, if I had to choose now, I’d choose something else as a stable alternative to the primary one. Like Debian, or LMDE, or if I didn’t want either of these distros, I could go with ParrotOS Home, which has things like LibreOffice and Flatpak already installed. Being based on Debian, it’s stable and definitely easier to manage than Void, which requires a lot of customization.
Personally, I don’t want to go crazy with this stuff, although I sometimes get a craving for learning new things or customizing things.
In short, the less you have to worry about with a “stable” secondary distro, the better (for me).
“Arch Linux, despite its reputation, has fundamentally lost its way”?
EDIT:
2 minutes into the video and the dude just slams Arch repeatedly. I’m about 5 minutes in, I’ll continue to watch out of curiosity.
EDIT 2:
That was just a 20-minute Arch bashing session. Though there were actually some good points regarding what Void does and how. But rather than actually promoting Void, it came across as nothing more than a “F**k Arch and systemd” video.
I don’t like bashing anything. Just downloading the actual void for a new test - tried it long time ago without any success…
And Arch - I love & I hate it - for the ‘bleeding edge’ as opposite to Debian for this ‘prehistoric’ software
And I love the docs, wiki and other articles in & around Arch - its better documented than anything else on the planet, IMHO.
Just searched around for 2 stable distro’s for my notebook - and ended up: EOS & Debian (XFCE all the time).
Sounds like a good choice to me. I’m living with Linux Mint (or LMDE) and EOS, both with X11 and Cinnamon. Same “outside look & feel” but different base. Always good to have one Debian-based and one Arch-based, so you never lose contact with both worlds.
Yeah, that is the ‘second’ idea behind…
This ‘fire & water’ seems a good thing to me - one of them will work at least at any time and may help the other.
Another benefit of multi-booting is that if you use the same username and password for each install, you can get into an install that will not boot to possibly fix the issue. However, for some reason I’m no longer able to do that with Debian Stable. I can do so under my Debian Unstable or EndeavourOS installs though.
I found VanillaOS Orchid to be very stable, even though it is actually based on Debian Sid. Containerization allows packages from different Linux distributions to be installed, which then appear in the system as native programs, at least at first glance, including Arch packages, which theoretically makes installing multiple Linux operating systems obsolete.
The only reason I no longer use VanillaOS is that I couldn’t get my printer to work, which in turn is because the printer driver is only available in the form of a shell script that requires access to the root file system. However, the root file system of VanillaOS is read-only (immutable). But this is not a problem unique to VanillaOS. I have this problem with all immutable operating systems.
Reading through all of this… i have to ask why not take system snapshots and regularly back up important files (as one should, even on LTS) and just stick with Endeavour ? I run the LTS Kernel on my laptop, bleeding edge on my gaming pc and both have timeshift installed and configured to create snapshots at successful boot. I have stopped bothering with any distro that is not arch based for daily use, i need the AUR, because i’m lazy.
Never change a running system.
If this is about exploring other distros just throw them in a VM?
Well, you are right and false…
Remind yourself, the biggest problem is always sitting in front of the device
I’m using a (real) second system to protect my work and keep me operable, whatever will happen. - No, you cannot protect you against everything, but keep the gap as small as possible.
And, I’m using the systems to full backup each other.
I’m aware of the Timeshift app, but I’ve never used it. However, in my mind system snapshots take up drive space, which has caused me to avoid using it. Having Timeshift could have saved me the few times I’ve accidently deleted /bin while deleting things under Double Commander in the past. I just try to be careful, especially when deleting things under Double Commander.
I just try to be careful, especially when deleting things under Double Commander.