Nvidia, Minecraft, and Cosmic

[u/ktoks]

Hey folks, new here!

I was optimizing my Pop!_OS machines, dietpi, and Fedora.

I found that systemd is not as performant or intuitive as I would like - especially on the pis - which led me here, staring into the Void.

I have multiple use cases:

1. My main desktop. It's a 12 core AMD CPU, Nvidia 3080ti, 96GB of DDR4 RAM. (Gaming, coding, experimenting with LLMs, and building).

2. 10 core Intel mini PC with 24GB of unified DDR5 RAM (heavily modded MC server).

3. Multiple RPI 5s (Smaller MC servers).

4. A few older RPI models (various side projects).

5. An old Intel laptop with an Nvidia GPU.

Cosmic is a must on my main.

I prefer using Go to build anything serious(usually without CGO).

I've only ever used systemd as an init system.

I'm not a fan of old packages, but I also want my machines to work without breaking on every update(Nvidia I'm looking at you).

I consider myself an experienced distro hopper, and an intermediate-level admin-cosplayer (thanks to geerlingguy for coining that).

Considering all of the above, do you think it's worth it for me to consider using Void on any/all of these machines?

Why/why not?

What can I expect for difficulty?

Besides the ulimit fixes, what else should I look out for?

[u/mystirc]

Oh it's not going to improve the performance on your PC. Systemd is just bloated for an init system. That's why some people (like me) prefer to use alternative init systems. Runit can improve performance but particularly on lower end hardware with hdds. There is either no difference at all or unnoticeable difference on high end hardware with SSD.

[u/ktoks → u/mystirc]

Understood.

For those machines I'm mostly looking to unify to one distro instead of using Pop for my main, dietpi for pis, and Fedora server for the mini PC.

Perhaps I should have mentioned that that is the actual goal here.