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Finally, me too into the void. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/voidlinux@lemmy.ml
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After hours of setup, I successfully installed and setup Void Linux on my laptop.

I'm into daily driving it and have no idea how it will end up as a complete 'runit' beginner. Also, I don't use Flatpak at all.

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[–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

welcome! i a have been running void on my daily driver main pc for around a year now. No complains at all. Moved from Arch which i ran for around 15 years. I also dont use flatpack/snap etc. i really like the simplicity of runit and it just works.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I've been on Arch for about a decade now and have no complaints, so, I'm curious, why did you switch from Arch after such a long time? To get away from systemd and to use runit? Any other reason(s)?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    My main reasons were I felt arch had changed it's philosophy over the years, moved away from the real keep it simple idea, and started to move more towards making it easier and more accessible for other people, which I felt was dumbing it all down and just didn't have the same attraction for me. Then the more tangible reasons were I felt systemd was over kill for what it does, wanted to try something simpler and more readily adjustable, and also I found quite a few breaking up dates, with arch trying to be almost bleeding edge, updates would come out that broke my system. Void offered a solution to all that.

    Still rolling release but not bleeding edge, so updates have time to be made safe first, runit is so simple and easy to understand, and the setup is only whatever you make it. It reminds me of arch from 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Yeah systemd is a beast that I haven't even begun to try to understand yet. It's quite daunting. I bet it's easy once you understand but before that happens, it seems almost insurmountable.

    Imma look into Void and see what it's about, but I don't think I'll switch anytime soon as nothing I have installed breaks for me as of yet. 😅

    Hey, thanks for replying, I appreciate it. 🫶

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Nice to know.

    Actually, don't know why but I got a satisfaction of achieving something big with Void. Usually no matter which distro, fedora, debian, opensuse, arch, etc... I always get a urge to switch between them.

    But Void doesn't give such an urge, maybe the reason is my 3 failures to try to install it and 4th one was almost successful. But after getting know more again I required to reinstall entire repo. No everything is rock-solid and user friendly. Void + runit + KDE + No extra bloats.

    Highlight : The official free and non-free repo only contains apps that matters and no extra gui app store, fonts, themes, etc.

    (The only reason for previous failures is me who was lazy to read everything in manual and listen full youtube guides)

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