I have not tried it yet. But it sounds quite similar to Alpine, using musl-c but not systemd. Is the main difference Alpine's default reliance on busybox? I have to say, xbps is a rather unmemorable name for a package manager. One of Arch's best decisions was to use the name pacman.
I haven't used Alpine much, but it seems targeted at server and embedded usecases. Void is decidedly a desktop distribution, and feels like Arch with a more powerful set of package tooling and runit instead of systemd. From my limited experience, I'd be more surprised by someone running Alpine as their main OS than OpenBSD, whereas Void is almost accessible by comparison.
Alpine is mostly used for docker instances, but can also be used on bare metal, which is indeed what I do. It's currently my main OS on one of my several laptops.
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