Can you share your experience about Void?

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Hello Friends

Taking in consideration that Debian dropped 32 bits support and it is reflected in some way to PeppermintOS …

Now, assuming the latter drops 32 bits support too and taking the following post as reference:

I have confirmed that Void has 32bits support and even with xfce as PeppermintOS too

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  • Can you share your experience about Void?

The goal is use the OS for an old notebook with an arquitecture of 32 bits (as Peppermint OS does too)

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I use Void 64 bit as a daily driver . It runs my VM’s with virt manager and I fiddle with docker containers there . It has been there for 5 years and I only ever had one rolling release update that caused issues. It is the glibc version ( not musl).

I have and old pentium laptop that has Void 32 bit. It runs OK there with Xfce as the DE.

Void can handle .deb files. It has a converter that translates them to .xbps. I rarely need it because the Void repo is nearly as comprehensive as Debian.

Dont be afraid of rolling release. Developers have learnt how to manage it now. Those horror stories from the early days of Arch are history. Rolling release is the way of the future.

The other distro that has 32 bit is antiX. Antix is designed for older smaller computers. You should consider antix as well as Void and Peppermint.

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Although a very limited number may keep 32 bit the other provider of apps have already walked away sadly, thinking chrome firefox office ….

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Hello Neville

As usual huge thanks for the reply

The other distro that has 32 bit is antiX. Antix is designed for older smaller computers. You should consider antix as well as Void and Peppermint.

Yes, I confirmed antiX supports 32bits

For the record, from the other post according with your solution

Void with Xfce, Antix with IceWM, Peppermint Devuan with Xfce, Artix with Xfce, Chimera with Plasma

Note, it seems we have good news about Peppermint see:

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Hello Paul

Although a very limited number may keep 32 bit the other provider of apps have already walked away sadly, thinking chrome firefox office ….

Agree, but my main purpose is use the notebook as client through SSH, so I need Terminator and Tmux. So far it is ok

BTW PeppermintOS has included Firefox ESR for 32 bits in its release based on Debian 12.

Best!

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