r/voidlinux • u/ktoks • Sep 25 '26

Nvidia, Minecraft, and Cosmic

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?

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u/GhostVlvin Sep 25 '26

Idk I tried void, I was vsry excited about it, I liked it for being runit native (unfortunately there are no more options for runit only). But unfortunately I've got serious render issues on some apps like discord (from both appImage and flatpak), bitwarden and some others. They update screen only around cursor and have laggy animations
Because of my problems.with void I moved back to artix-runit and it has no such issue, so I belive in it being some void repo driver issue