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

Anyone else playing/using Void…?

  • ScrambledLogic@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    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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    2 years ago

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

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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Noodlez@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    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.