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I had a very good ride with Void for 3 years, a polished distro which taught me to play with init.
But a lot of GNU packages are not packaged, and lastly I saw a news regarding the distro being split between pro and free version so ...
I used Antix after that, but AntiX can really get behind on package and kernel version, so I stumbled back on Devuan, and voilà ! With backport, Devuan is really like Debian without the hassle of never knowing if your system us really shut down when you close your laptop (systemd ! 🫵)
There isn't a pro version, that was the April fools joke of last year
https://voidlinux.org/news/2025/04/enterprise.html
Again, April fools joke. Check the date and also, if you go to the link of "enterprised images" provided, the images are the normal ones
Ah ha ! Well it was a stupid joke then 😅 my first grievance is still about not packaging GNU software though (exim, mailutils, just on top of my head but etc.)