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I used it for a year a year or so ago and changed for some reason. Recently did a fresh install and I am seriously unable to think why I left it.
It's insanely fast, performant, resource-friendly and much more community driven than other distros with the void-packages repository on GitHub. Oh, and it doesn't have systemd so my install boots in 3 seconds flat, compared to the 22 seconds for Fedora 38.