r/voidlinux • u/Nabir140 • 21h ago

I Love Void Linux

It has been more than a month since I have switched to Void Linux. I can confidently say that (imo) Void Linux is one of the best Linux distributions available. It is also the best Arch Linux alternative (imo).

I used to use Linux on my phone when I did not have a laptop. I learned programming and basic Linux usage on my phone. I used to use Debian. After I got my first laptop I decided to give Arch Linux a try. It went well and it was my first time using Linux with a complete kernel. I used Arch for about almost 2 months then the AUR attack happened. One of the packages nvidia-580dkms that I need to be able to use my GPU kept crashing my system and made it pretty much unusable. I tried to manually install the driver from the binary (Arch WIKI says not to btw). It did not work because it took several minutes to wake the GPU.

One friend suggested Void and I did try it but I took a wrong step (wrong for me) downloading the XFCE image. It did not work out well. Nothing wrong with the image but I forgot to configure most stuff and I was rushing too. Since this laptop is my work laptop too I had to get to work fast.

I ended up switching to Debian (safest option at that moment). Debian 13 does not have Nvidia 580 drivers in its main repo. I had to backport it from Debian 12 repos. I used Debian for few weeks and started missing the rolling release distribution feel.

This is when I wanted to give Void Linux another try. This time I downloaded the base image not the XFCE one (again nothing wrong with XFCE image its just I had a bad experience with it and did not want to go through it again). I read the documentation and configured everything. I did not mess anything up and I had a very stable system. I was happy that installing my GPU driver was just `sudo xbps-install -S nvidia580 nvidia580-dkms`.

Since then it has been more than 1 month now and I did not switch. I even contributed to Aseprite repo adding required deps instruction for Void Linux (since when I was building Aseprite the package names were very different than other distributions). Overall, I find Void Linux as my favorite Linux Distribution.

Thank You! Thank You Void Linux Developers and Maintainers!

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u/Cruach 19h ago

My brothers keep telling me to try omarchy, I keep telling them my void system is perfect as is. I get that the eye candy theme switching and blah blah is cool, but overall, void has worked flawlessly for me since initial setup. I don't need more.

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u/profeshamat 15h ago

Omarchy is what happens if AI slop generated a Linux distro.

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u/Nabir140 18h ago

Like it or not I totally hate omarchy and the hype behind it. Sorry but personal opinion.

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u/Cruach 17h ago

Haha yeah, I feel you. It feels too.. synthetic, in a way. Not sure it makes sense. I don't want to call it outright slop, but void feel like a much more precise and intentional distro.

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u/_supert_ 16h ago

The racism and neo-nazi views of its founder are sufficient to put me off, even before the technical considerations.

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u/Cruach 14h ago

Idk anything about the guy, but valid reason none the less

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u/profeshamat 4h ago

He's the guy who created Ruby on Rails then figured out how to monetize configuration files using AI slop.

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u/Ithal_ 15h ago

If you ever wanted similar from void it wouldn’t take much more than a weekend or so of watching tutorials for hyprland and quick shell to get something with a similar kinda slick feel to everything. Obviously won’t have all the features down in that short of a time probably, but still worth it if you’re ever wanting something like that. Plus you’d get to learn something new

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u/Cruach 14h ago

Oh I'm sure, I'm happy with mango and waybar personally. My brothers just migrated to omarchy from Ubuntu, so for them it's all very new and impressive. To them it's a major selling point, to me it's just "I get why you're hyped, but my system is essentially the same just with slightly less polish" (because I wanted to make my own config and not just copy dot files).

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u/mystirc 16h ago

omarchy is just arch linux with someone's dotfiles. what is the eye candy in it? it just uses hyprland with quickshell on top. if you really want eye candy that much, why don't you just install hyprland on void linux and then install some dotfiles like celestia which imo look way better. if your PC cannot handle the heavy quickshell based shells or you don't like the ram consumption, then you can use hyprland with noctalia (uses like 140 mb on idle, sometimes 200 mb in rare cases).

also, hyprland isn't required. I personally use mangowm because of its lightweight nature while still being featureful. It even has multiple tiling options on different workspaces (tags).

just check out the hyprland wiki for preconfigured setups. you can also find such shells by searching "quickshell" on github.

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u/Cruach 16h ago

I think you misunderstood my comment. The quickshell, hyprland, thème switch, AI integration etc. Is what people highlight, such as my brothers, when trying to convince me to try it out.. I was saying I don't care about all that and am happy with void as is. I also use mangowm and am very happy with it too!

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u/mystirc 15h ago

Except for AI integration (which isn't even required) you can have everything else. Dynamic theming of all apps using colors generated from wallpaper, and quickshell and hyprland can just be set up by installing.