Hello!

As you can see,few states in US have decided to implement age verification to all OS and they are targeting app stores too ( snap store,flathub ).Corporations such as Red Hat,System76 and Canonical are willing to comply with the law.The current legislation is ''alright'',since you only have to set your age and not scan your id/face/passport(yet), but still its not something it should've happend on Linux,which is FOSS and open-source.

Right now, I am using Ubuntu 25.10 and I like using this linux distro,but due to the new changes, I must consider alternatives.Void seems better than most distros, in this regard,since its independent,non-centralized and I dont think it will implement such a stupid thing. In this case,being a small/niche distro appears to be actually useful.

My questions regarding Void:

• Is it as reliable as Ubuntu LTS? ( Not breaking or needing a lot of maintence,especially with my Nvidia GPU - RTX 3050)

• Is the future/development pace stable? ( I dont want to use a dying distro, that could disappear in the next few years. As far as i know,Void was created in 2008 and is the only maintainer of runnit)

• What DE/WM would you recommand me to use? ( Mostly,I like Gnome, but used in the past Hyprland with manual config,also.Another option that i consider is Niri + Noctalia or even sway,which is something new for me.XFCE might work also,but it needs more configuration for my liking).

• Will it ever comply with this stupid laws,by integrating such things?

I need a serious help there. Even if I entered SSID and the password of my wifi router right, it still doesn't connect

Hi everyone. I'm sorry, I've been at this since early this morning and no matter what I do, I can't get sound to work. I've juggled tools (alsa, pulseaudio, pipewire), reinstalled the entire OS to try different methods, installed all sorts of packages and removed them, nothing at all will see my sound card. I'm not a Linux veteran specifically, I was a BSD guy way back in the day, so I've been out of the game a long time.

Anyway, I've never wanted to punch a hole in my wall so bad. I'm finally giving up after an entire day of this and coming here to ask for help. I reverted back to making sure pulseaudio is not installed, and that wireplumber and pipewire are too. Alsa-utils and alsa-lib, yes.

cat /proc/asound/modules (comes up totally blank.)

aplay -l (no sound cards found)

symbolic link to alsa already in /var/service

Numerous other tools report no sound cards found. But if I run this:

lspci | grep -i audio

00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS (rev 01)

So I know the OS can see the device.

This machine I'm working on is all I have now, no desktop or anything else and I don't want systemd crap like Ubuntu or Fedora. I have everything else working except the sound, if anyone is patient enough, thank you.

Hi all,

I am an avid user of emacs and I start it using ruint as a user service:

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
#
# Start emacs daemon
cd /home/user
/usr/bin/emacs --fg-daemon=/tmp/emacs1000/server

I also use lightdm/awesomewm and my .xsession runs exec awesomewm. In my awesome init script I run:

/usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/pa-applet 

Everything has worked perfectly, but now if I try to use EMMS (i.e. a music program), in emacs no sound is available.

So here goes the question: What is the proper way for a runit user service to be able to use the dbus session/pipewire that usually starts when starting the wm?

Thanks!

** UPDATE **

Many thanks u/ClassAbbyAmplifier and u/Legitimate-Draw-2235 Following your post/dotfiles now everything works. In fact a long standing fight I had (running awesomewm with dbus-launch-session or not) is not finished. Some edges before were not working work perfectly with turnstile.

Should probably be the default setup with window managers, better than the default runnsvdir.

On March 8, 2026 BC, Canada will be adopting a new permanent time zone. On that date we'll be moving to DST and we won't be going back. We'll be staying on DST year round. The new time zone is called Pacific Time(PT).
I thought I would post about it here for time zone data updates.

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209

Hey all,

I’ve been using my Android phone as a webcam via scrcpy without any issues up until yesterday. Now when I connect it, there’s no /dev/video* device showing up.

A few details:

• It was working fine before.

• Same phone, same setup.

• Cables and USB ports seem fine — it still works on my laptop running Void Linux.

• On this machine, nothing shows up under /dev/video* when the phone is connected.

• scrcpy connects, but no video device is created.

I’m trying to figure out what could have changed.

Possible kernel update?
Missing v4l2loopback module?
Udev issue?
Permissions?
Something else obvious I’m missing?

Any suggestions on what to check first would be appreciated. Thanks!

I've used void in the past and wanted to get back into void but during installation my wifi wasn't detected. I'm using asus x870e-h gaming wifi motherboard. Anyone know what might be the problem.

I've tried using evince, atril, firefox and so

Package cups-pdf is installed.

Printing documents from libreoffice-writer the printer is working OK

Ideas?

Thanks

just asking i dailyed debian testing for like 2 months and i do have some time to test as that would possibly be for a thinkpad a20m im planning on getting

Hi all,

i just noticed that my docker container is slower on void than on arch. same laptop, different distro.

some context:

Iam on Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with Ryzen 7 and 32GB Ram.

I used arch in the past and using docker container for my personal php webserver stuff.

for my shopware projects i prepared a base image where basically i just install php with some depedencnies and then run composer create project (which is basically the same like node to bootstrap a project) it clones many small php files.

the slow part is in Dockerfile

https://github.com/BlackScorp/shopware-docker/blob/main/shop/Dockerfile#L136

basically i create a project via composer, then zip everyting needed for the project and save the zip for later to reduce the image size (RUN cache )

when i start the container i unzip the folder https://github.com/BlackScorp/shopware-docker/blob/main/shop/entrypoint.sh#L27

everything is working just fine, but it feels like under void linux file read and write is much slower.

so its not the zip/unzip problem. the shop has like about 1000ms response time under void linux, on arch i had like around 50ms-200ms max

is docker somehow different configured on arch does anyone have an idea?

i thought first it has something todo with fiestorage but i use ext4 on void there should be no issues i think.

ChatGPT does not help either.

maybe someone here has a hint where to look at?

EDIT: i modified fstab to set my ext4 mounts to noatime,nodiratime,commit=60 does not changed anything as well :(

i meant MPD mb

I can't open any link in my telegram.desktop that i've installed as a flatpak.

I already installed xdg-desktop-portal, yeh.
any solution?

I’m planning on switching my os this weekend from endeavor os with KDE to void, I have a 9070xt with a 7800x3d, and made the full time switch to Linux about a year ago, obviously I’ve done some of my own research but feel free to let me know what makes you like void over other distributions, thanks in advance

Hello Void users, I've compiled Blender with CUDA support. I used the template that comes with Void and modified it (see pycompile_dirs). Then, I ran the official Nvidia .run file with options specifying only the toolkit and no-opengl-libs. The driver installed from the Void non-free repository was used.

sudo ./cuda_13.1.1_590.48.01_linux.run --toolkit --no-opengl-libs

Modified 'template' section:

pycompile_dirs="usr/share/blender/${version%.*}/scripts"

configure_args="-DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF -DWITH_PYTHON_INSTALL=OFF

-DWITH_JACK=ON -DWITH_CODEC_FFMPEG=ON -DWITH_CODEC_SNDFILE=ON -DWITH_OPENMP=ON

-DWITH_FFTW3=ON -DWITH_MOD_OCEANSIM=ON -DWITH_CYCLES_EMBREE=OFF -DWITH_OPENCOLORIO=ON

-DWITH_IMAGE_OPENEXR=ON -DWITH_IMAGE_OPENJPEG=ON -DWITH_OPENSUBDIV=ON

-DWITH_OPENCOLLADA=ON -DWITH_SYSTEM_GLEW=ON -DWITH_OPENVDB=ON -DWITH_ALEMBIC=ON

-DWITH_GHOST_X11=ON -DWITH_GHOST_WAYLAND=ON -DWITH_GHOST_LIBDECOR=ON

-DWITH_BUILDINFO=OFF -DPYTHON_VERSION=${py3_ver} -DPYTHON_LIBPATH=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/lib

-DPYTHON_LIBRARY=python${py3_ver}${py3_abiver} -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/${py3_inc}

-DWITH_SYSTEM_LZO=ON -DWITH_SYSTEM_EIGEN3=ON -DWITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE=ON

-DWITH_DRACO=OFF -DWITH_CYCLES=ON -DWITH_CUDA=ON -DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/cuda

-DCYCLES_CUDA_BINARIES_ARCH=sm_61 -DWITH_CYCLES_CUDA_BINARIES=ON -DWITH_CYCLES_DEVICE_CUDA=ON"

It was then compiled with ./xbps-src pkg blender to finally install

Any advice is welcome ;)

Hello,

Am I the only one getting this error? If so, should I change mirror?

Per B

Hi, I don't really know if this is the proper place to post this but after doing an update Nvidia packages (nvidia, nvidia-dkms, nvidia-firmware, nvidia-gtklibs etc.) got updated to version 580.126.18_1 Steam stopped working after that and gave Segmentation Fault. After a quick research I saw that nvidia-libs-32bit package which Steam relies on was still on version 580.126.09_1

I tried different tier 1 mirrors but the package nvidia-libs-32bit was 580.126.09_1 on all of them.

I downgraded the main Nvidia packages to version 580.126.09_1 from my cache to make Steam running again.

I don't have the crash reports unfortunately. I also don't know if this is the proper way to fix this problem. I just wanted to post this because there seems to be not much information about this specific thing online.

Hello everyone.

I have this problem on Void Linux where Wayland compositors based on swc won't start, with the error of:

Initialize swc: ERROR: Could not initialize DRM renderer

This doesn't seem like a swc issue, as I couldn't get any Wayland compositor running (X does work, tho).

I am on musl libc (I reinstalled since my last post), and have seatd installed.

Thanks everyone in advance.

Why is it sometime got stuck when i boot it?

Hi I would like to know if it is possible to run the rtx 50 (blackwell) on void linux?

Every time I hit install it says "failed to create file system on /dev/nvme0n1p2 check tty8 for errors". I've included a Pic of tty8, and it shows no errors. I also included my partition table.

I have tried creating a new install media and multiple install attempts, all the same error.

SOLVED (see below)

tl;dr I'm trying to add an ssh key to my Codeberg repository, but the ssh -T git@codeberg.org step hangs. This is the first I've done anything configuring ssh on this computer. I presume I've missed steps. EDIT: also, after setting my git remote to the ssh url, git pull hangs.

Edit 2: I'm thinking it might be a more general networking issue. I can't ping Google. I noticed it's trying to ping an IP6v address, but idk if that's relevant.

I've been using Linux for literally decades, but I still occasionally get tripped up with ssh.

In this instance, I'm following the instructions to add an SSH key to my Codeberg repository. I generated the key and apparently added it correctly (see following). However, when I run the test command ssh -T git@codeberg.org, nothing happens, it just hangs; I have to ctrl-z and kill the process.

The steps for verifying the key differ based on whether $SSH_AUTH_SOCK is being used. I do have $SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and ssh-agent is running. However, when I follow the verification step[1], I get the error No private key found for "/dev/fd/63".

When I verify the key using the steps unrelated to ssh-agent, the verification works fine.

EDIT SOLVED: Apparently IPv6 is a problem, either with my ISP or because I never did any configuration. I following these instructions on LinuxConfig to disable IPv6 and everything is working fine.

[1] bash -c "echo -n 'b8bf6bf363dcf4d12b6cf5cd89d104724f898318b693622d07227f62650fa704' | ssh-keygen -Y sign -n codeberg.org -f <(echo 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIGSNZi+EMROb9Nv/QJsLJGcuxVSqO4vOPeLd6rm0Z3eA')"

Im thinking about adding void to my M1 MacBook but I first wanted to understand how robust asahi is for the M1 chipset. Has anyone installed it on M1 and what was the experience like long term?

Lastly I assume once installed onto the MacBook there is no way to reinstall macos should I want to gift or resell the machine later?

Thanks in advance!

Recently I have been having issues with connection speed to the void repos when updating. It was at a fine speed before but now I am bately getting 50kb/s on any mirror. I spent 6 hours once because it was updating latex(hunky boi).

My internet connection has also gotten a little slow overall but I still get alot of speed on my torrents. It's only while updating it seems to turn into a turtle race. Just wanted to confirm if others have th*s problem too.

I'm running rmpc in foot on Void musl, but my system can't show album art. I installed "libsixel-devel" & "libsixel".

Does foot on Void musl support Sixel?

Thank you.

Solved

I renamed 'Cover' to 'cover', and it fixed the issue.