I must say I am enjoying Void Linux w/xfce so far. May just switch from MXLinux…
Anyone else playing/using Void…?
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.
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.
been using it for almost a year now.
it’s been 18 years full time linux/bsd for me and it went knoppix -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch linux -> gentoo -> freebsd -> void
arch linux in 2008 was really good, and lasted for a couple of years. gentoo was a chore, because it’s fully source based. freebsd is rock solid, amazing amazing system, i would be still using it if it weren’t for aec applications and games. still using it on my homeserver.
void is blazing fast, highly reliable rolling release package system, amazingly simple init system. i have a 3060ti and it’s working surprisingly good on wayland. it’s just hassle-free for me, i love it.
Did you used FreeBSD with wi-fi? Any issues with It? Any other consideration about It?
yeah, with wi-fi. i didn’t have any issues using wifi. like i said earlier, some applications don’t have freebsd versions and manually compiling and keeping them update is a lot of hassle. other than that highly reliable system.
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.
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.
What’s it look like? And why do so many distros neglect to have a screenshot page?
Because it doesn’t matter, you can customize them all however you like
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.
Aside from Nvidia drivers, Void is home.
What problem do you have with nvidia drivers on void ? Should just work if following the guide on their documentation
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