Just Enough Void

I've only used it for a few weeks, however I've quickly come to love Void Linux. Void meets all the criteria I especially value when evaluating a desktop Linux distro for my personal use: Built and led by a community and built from scratch (not a fork). A rolling release model of continuous, incremental upgrades. Provide officially supported init system alternative(s) to systemd. Decent project documentation to get started and perform basic tasks. Tinkering friendly. All this rolling and tinkering requires a robust means of recovery when things go awry: OpenZFS for snapshots of system states, combined with ZFSBootMenu for booting and rollbacks to former, better times. Working my way through this excellent installation guide, I show the choices I make to create an encrypted Root-On-ZFS minimal Linux system with "just enough" to provide a solid foundation to build upon further: whether that be setting up a desktop, laptop, or server. 1. Start Here Acquire an installation image Prepare…