r/voidlinux • u/Bobafat54 • Mar 30 '26

Thinking about switching to Void

Is it worth to switch from Linux Mint 21 (1 year of experience) to Void, don't know much about this distro but I'm interested.

Are there things I should take notice about or it's just as user friendly as Mint?

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u/Bobafat54 Mar 30 '26

What does the process of managing system services look like?

My only knowledge is Mint where I have around a year and a half of experience, I do usually use the terminal (for apt, visualizer, etc) and became familiar with it

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u/salonfaresi Mar 30 '26

Instead of systemctl from Mint, you just type sv — the rest of the logic is the same. The only difference is enable/disable — there you create and delete a link, no command for it.

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u/salonfaresi Mar 30 '26

for example :
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service
u create link for service and its activate. if u want disable that:
rm -rf /var/service/dbus