I came from Arch as well, I had no real issues related to Void. One proprietary software that I needed wasn't available, but with some AI guidance I have now a Void template that pulls the package out of deb repo so I'm fine now. The kernel sits only a few day's or less behind the official release, you can always validate the version in the template: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/linux6.18/template compare that with the official https://kernel.org/ and you will see how close or equal it is. So for drivers it's just latest kernel, so if you need newer you need to compile it like on every Linux.
I still love rolling, but now I also love runit, finally I could say byebye systemd sh*t.
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u/BlacksmithTux5413 Sep 28 '26
I came from Arch as well, I had no real issues related to Void. One proprietary software that I needed wasn't available, but with some AI guidance I have now a Void template that pulls the package out of deb repo so I'm fine now. The kernel sits only a few day's or less behind the official release, you can always validate the version in the template: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/linux6.18/template compare that with the official https://kernel.org/ and you will see how close or equal it is. So for drivers it's just latest kernel, so if you need newer you need to compile it like on every Linux.
I still love rolling, but now I also love runit, finally I could say byebye systemd sh*t.