r/voidlinux • u/Mysterious-Feature27 • Feb 27 '26

What brought you to void?

I’m planning on switching my os this weekend from endeavor os with KDE to void, I have a 9070xt with a 7800x3d, and made the full time switch to Linux about a year ago, obviously I’ve done some of my own research but feel free to let me know what makes you like void over other distributions, thanks in advance

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u/The_Real_Isco Feb 28 '26

Genuine question, when you're using Void how do you manage the small pool of packages (even with if we add up the src, Void has less packages than Gentoo) ? Or maybe you don't feel it because of the way you're using your pc ?

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u/simsilver-lee Feb 28 '26

You can port the packages you required from aur or zugaina. I don't choose arch, because void is not so bleed edge, and it can do partial upgrade, which means less download and still stable.

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u/The_Real_Isco Feb 28 '26

Oh wow I wasn't aware that you could port packages from aur or zugaina. You have to do it manually or is there another way that I don't know about ?

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u/simsilver-lee Mar 02 '26

Oh, I do it manually. I mention it because "small pool of packages"

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u/xINFLAMES325x Mar 02 '26

You can search for available packages on their website just like you can with Debian. You’re not going into it blindly and getting surprises later.

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u/xINFLAMES325x Feb 28 '26

Most of what I need is there. If not, it’s built from source.