[athrowaway3z]

> Yet Void is also suffering from a lack of maintainers, just like Debian, and as a result, many third party packages in Void Linux is hopelessly outdated.

On a tangent, i've been using Void for a couple of years now and i'm very happy with it. All the packages i want are up to date ( and i do not require LTS or backported security fixes ).

Things like runit and xbps-src are relatively simple. I can htop and know why every process was started.

Maybe I'd just reached the right level of skill to 'get' it once i switched, but i never had the feeling i was in control with other systems such as systemd and apt.

[pdenton]

I'm happy with void for 7 years now, and used to contribute. You're right, xbps is much easier than other package managers (looking at you, dpkg!). The templates are even a tiny bit simpler than the equivalents of Arch.