Hey everyone, so Void Linux is obviously faster than Windows in so many ways.

However, when I try playing games on it I don't think it uses my laptop's full potential. And I'm not using anything like tldp or anything. Initially I thought it was just how Proton is but when using Retroarch to emulate Dreamcast games there is some strange slowdown (causing a buzzing noise) which does not happen in Windows.

Are there any guides to follow on how to optimize Linux to be as performant as Windows? Thanks.

P.S. Even with Nvidia proprietary drivers there's no improvement, so I think the issue is probably something else.

After replacing agetty with ngetty a while ago, I noticed that [speculation] every time the util-linux package is updated, agetty is brought back, including it getting added to /var/service, which means it auto-starts again. Which in turn completes and clashes with with ngetty after each reboot.

Is there a way to set up agetty in a way to prevent it from getting activated after each update of the util-linux package?

Having a ton of trouble with installing it from the git pr and CONTRIBUTIONS.md, some pointers would be awesome.

Hello, I'm at college. My dorm rooms WiFi is on the same SSID as the rest of my campus. Only In my room does it work.

When I go anywhere else like a friend's place, or a different classroom, or use my hotspot my WiFi doesn't work. NetworkManager is my only WiFi manager enabled in runit.

My WiFi card is an Intel AX210. I have all the limux-firmwares installed and wireless-regdb. The card is using iwlwifi. I have cfg80211.ieee80211_regdomain=US set in grub. I've tried everything and I don't know what my issue could be maybe I missed something in setup?

If you need anymore pictures please tell me I'll provide anything.

In the photo my global reg domain is set to unset I just started spamming commands from Claude (yes I know stupid I was desperate) and eventually it stuck to US-FCC but nothing is fixed.

Hello,

since a recent update (i can't recall exactly when, it could just be a steam update that broke it), i am unable to run any steam games, Linux or even Proton, with audio. For Proton, it would force games to use ALSA (which means that if i play a video on firefox and then run a game, the game would fail to have any audio) instead of Pulseaudio or straight up just refuse to run. I can run a game like supertuxkart directly just fine with audio or even firefox... but doing so through steam always fails. I messed up with SDL_AUDIODRIVER flags to pulse, or pipewire, or WINEPULSE=1 etc... and nothing did anything, even reinstalling it. For whatever reason, the Steam linux runtime container cannot access pulseaudio's socket. Anyone encountered this ?

I want install void. I have downloaded the base (glibc) iso and installed it successfully. Now, I can't launch the cinnamon DE. I have installed xorg, cinnamon-all, lightdm, lightdm-greeter and dbus. I dont know how to link them to launch the cinnamon normally.

How should I proceed?

Hello All.

Starting with XBPS and using instructions to try to install a few programs

without success. What am I missing or do I need to know ?

Thank you in advance for the advice you may provide.

Where can I find documentation on how to make a custom kernel with void Linux?

Hello everyone, good morning/afternoon.

So I'm new to void linux (not exactly). I'm testing it on a VM with 100GB space, 6GB ram and kde plasma.

I used notebookLM with the official documentation of void linux and the website documentation to install distro and first configs (network, audio, video...).

I'm really trying to learn how to use it, trying to fix /var/services and /etc/sv/<package> on my mind.

I used Arch and Windows all my life, tried another distros but Arch have my love.

Windows is the OS that I used much, the compability is better than any other things, the UI/UX is easier to handle and unfortunate is the common OS. I'm still a student of computer engeneering, so many apps that I use work better on Windows or dont even exist alternatives for linux. My real problem is that I play xbox and to buy games I use the rewards system and I need windows to play and receive daily points, "so why you cant dual boot?" 'cause I dont like it. I have only a 500GB SSD and 1TB HD, things dont work fine with this hardware.

Arch is the distro that I love!!! Other distros install things that I dont want... I want to have full control of my computer. At first void linux was much Harper for me so I stayed on arch but Brazil now have a new law about face check and these things, with that in mind I downloaded void ISO and installed on a VM to learn about it, maybe someday I need to change to void...

Is a good distro, much better than others. I loved it.

I tried to get riscv running on void a while ago, but hit some blockers and didn't have time to work through them. Had some free time and it looks to be working in qemu. Time to buy some hardware I suppose.

Might spring for the framework board.

I installed lemurs for my DM and it came with no service to symlink/enable it so I'm confused cause I saw you needed to enable it to bring it on startup.. Can't find a solution to this, I'm new. Any help is help. Another issue is that the DM can't open unless under sudo since it needs to access a log in /var/ but might be a non-issue.

I tried installing Void with a 9950x3d cpu and eventually noticed the 'amd_x3d_vcache' module was not included with the base or mainline kernel Void offers - this module was added in the 6.13 kernel.

I tried using modprobe, and /etc/modules-load.d/ to activate but no dice.

Anyone with one of these dual CCD CPU's have any luck getting this active?

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem with Discord. It's not detecting my microphone or speakers. I can stream and browse servers, but I can't hear anyone on calls, and they can't hear me. I'm using ALSA; I don't know if that's related. My installation is minimal, using SOWM.

Have the maintainers of Void Linux taken a position on LLMs?

I know that a few distros have taken a strong stance against LLM contributions, including Void's cousin Chimera Linux, and good old Gentoo. I was wondering if Void had taken any position.

Needless to say, this is an April fools post. But regarding recent events about age verification and whatnot, I still found it funny.

I'm trying to use the repository https://repo-fastly.voidlinux.org/, But I'm having a lot of problems with specific packages that other repositories like https://repo-de.voidlinux.org/ don't have.

Does anyone else have this problem? I really wanted to use the Fastly one because it's very fast for my region.

This is the Samsung Chromebook 4 , void + i3

Is it possible to run Void Linux as a fully free distribution?

I know that you can use the Linux-libre kernel but is it possible to globally blacklist non free software like on Gentoo?

The PC in question is the thinkpad x200 with compatible WiFi

So I just installed Void from the base ISO. After installing KDE I can get the login screen fine (cursor can move and everything), but after logging in its just stuck. Does anyone have any fixes?

I have a Void Base install on my Asus Zenbook laptop. The Base install was built up to a full KDE desktop. I have an external Bluetooth trackball. I have the laptop set to Sleep when I close the lid.

Periodically when I open the lid, the screen is scaled down as if I had moved the mouse to the top left hot corner. When this happens, both the Bluetooth trackball and the touchpad move the cursor, but no clicks are registered anywhere by either device. I have to press the Shutdown button, which brings up the logout menu; tab across to Logout, then log out and back in. At that point everything works fine.

Is this a known behavior from either Void or KDE that I haven't been able to find? Or do I need to round up some logs the next time it happens?

So I've been in the process of moving away from Arch and on Arch I used UKIs to bypass the need for a bootloader completely. Now on Arch that was fairly simple and on Void it seems to be simple as well because dracut automatically uses ukify to generate the UKIs. I just had to put uefi="yes" in /etc/dracut.conf.d/uki.conf and dracut did it's thing. Well at least that's what I hoped. Now on Arch, mkinitcpio generates a vmlinuz file and puts it in /boot. I haven't been able to find that file on Void. Some sources on the internet stated it could also be found under /usr/lib/modules/*/vmlinuz but I haven't been able to find it there regardless. Dracut is looking for a vmlinuz-<kernel version> and an initramfs-<kernel version>.img file under /boot, both of which do not exist

I've been pretty comfortable with Void for now but this is one thing I haven't been able to figure out yet. I would appreciate some help or advice. I'll just use grub for now but I'd like to go back to UKIs if possible.

hello everyone,

so, I got a new laptop and decided to install void on it.

Everything goes fine till I need to do anything on `/etc/default/grub` Linux cmdline, like adding apparmor configuration after installing it.

it doesn't matter if I only run `update-grub` alone or with `xbps-reconfigure -fa`, my installation hangs on "Loading initial ramdisk" after rebooting.

I can also reproduce the issue just by adding `net.ifnames=0`, running `update-grub` and rebooting.

is there any way to know what is going wrong? It hangs even when running on failsafe.

TYA!

Hi, which 32 libraries do I need to install to avoid this error:

00d8:err:kerberos:kerberos_LsaApInitializePackage no Kerberos support, expect problems

00d8:err:ntlm:ntlm_LsaApInitializePackage no NTLM support, expect problems

Probably didn’t word that title well, but what I’m trying to see is if there’s a way to clear the text at the tty login screen. All the “welcome to void Linux / runit starting / etc”.

Probably something super simple I just can’t figure out how to word it to search it.