I’m liking it a lot, it’s very barebones which is something I was looking for, and the package manager’s command to install stuff is kinda hard to remember but does its job well. This might be my new daily driver now.

Only issue is that since it’s not as popular as other distros finding information specific to Void Linux might be inconvenient.

Did any of you look into Void Linux? Do you like it?

  • savoy@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I adore Void; it’s been my daily driver for about 5-6 years now. Simple, fast, easy to configure, and the Void Handbook does a great job of detailing Void-specific items that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to find in the Arch Wiki, for example.

    the package manager’s command to install stuff is kinda hard to remember but does its job well

    xbps is incredible and very fast, but if you’re having trouble remembering the commands or just don’t want to have to type the chain, I’d recommend looking at vpm. It’s a very apt-like way to manage it e.g. vpm update vs xbps-install -Su and vpm search vs xbps-query -Rs

  • blueberries@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s a really good distro in my opinion. When I used it, many obscure package that you would have trouble finding in other’s distro’s repositories, were right there in the main package repository of void. I also really liked working with runit over systemd as writing your own services was really simple.

    If I hadn’t switched to NixOS I’d still be using void as my daily driver.