I must say I am enjoying Void Linux w/xfce so far. May just switch from MXLinux…

Anyone else playing/using Void…?

  • 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    Yep, using it as a daily driver for a long long time. It’s perfect for my needs and I just love the not-so-cutting edge approach, breaks a lot less than Arch does.

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      Many arch users will disagree that it breaks… I think sometimes it’s actually the users fault, and other times it’s Nvidia drivers.

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        Maybe… but still, in my experience it breaks a lot less than Arch. Hell, I even use it as an Ent distro, I’ve set up a few NASes on it, still hasn’t broken a damn thing, and most of them are running for like 5, 6 years now.

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    Yep, been using it as my daily driver for a few years now, aside from trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a few months. I’ve settled on running it with sway as my wm for the time being. I’ve generally been pretty happy with it. I like the package manager and the relative simplicity of the system, which requires a bit more work to set up but seems easier to understand/fix when something goes wrong (usually user error in my experience, lol.) The developers also proved that they could learn from their mistakes with a minimum of drama after the whole kerfluffle with the original creator. Most packages that I need that aren’t in the repo can be had with flatpak. Overall, a relatively pleasant Linux distro experience.

    Edit: Forgot to mention, in my experience an actually stable AND rolling release distribution!

    Btw, here is a small void linux community for lemmy. It doesn’t appear to be very active, but hopefully that will change with time.

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    What’s it look like? And why do so many distros neglect to have a screenshot page?

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    I used Void for a while and I loved it! I had to move off because I kept having to make packages for the esoteric programs I kept using (cc65, Zoom, etc.). but I loved every bit of it. Even making the packages was pleasant, and it’s the first distro I ever contributed packages to.

    Also, at the time I was using musl, and it was good, but not perfect. I’d recommend the glibc version for 0 headaches, but the musl version was very fun.

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    Been using it a while and I genuinely cant find anything to complain about. xbps is the best pkg manager, runit is quick and gets out the way and all my architectures are supported

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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.

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    Yep! I used it as a daily driver for ~a year, switched off to try something new, and have recently switched back indefinitely.

    Only distro I’ve ever switched back to after leaving, and that’s because it’s where I plan to stay. It really lives in such a sweet spot of up to date, stable, and simple/hackable.

    With a nice handbook, friendly community, runit, xbps-src, and multi lib/arch support, Void is truly great.

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    It doesn’t matter what backend you use as long as it suits your needs. At this point nobody should use any frontend which uses xorg as its backend.

    Edit. As user KSP_Atlas very fairly pointed my mistake about Nvidia, I stand as corrected.

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        Very good point and totally my mistake. Luckily Nvidia promised Wayland support at Q4 of 2023.

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      Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.

      I don’t like using X, but Wayland isn’t ready for power users yet. I don’t think people generally would notice the difference.