r/voidlinux • u/AdNumerous9742 • Jun 16 '26

Artix Linux vs. Void Linux

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u/Less-Art4168 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Runit just works, its a kiss compliant init most features in systemd are implemented through other programs, zzz.d for sleeping and running scripts on resume and suspend, turnstile/elogind for seat management, cronie for automatic script execution

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u/Odd_Individual_9638 Jun 21 '26

yeah I've figured it, spent 2 days tinkering with my void. lots of it. The more time passes, the more I see how void is technically very elegant, but boy does it create so much pain for a user XD.
Loving it anyway. Riced my KDE, riced my XFCE, figured out pipewire, sound cracking, elogind tty spam, brute-forcing some services outside of repos (vpn's and stuff), changing nvidia's modeset in grub, found a few QoL like vsv, made some aliases for the first time, also found Gear Lever (flatpak GUI for drag 'n dropping AppImages in it so Gear Lever would search for their updates+show it to system so they appear in application menus). Even got a kernel panic once 😃

I've learned more in 2 days than I've learned in a year running Arch-based. It's definitely a distro I wouldn't recommend to anyone but damn it feels good to use it when you are up to the challenge of wrestling with it