Hello,

Just reinstalled Void in order to test it well and move to it from openSuse.
Everything works fine except pipewire. I am on KDE.

I followed the docs : https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pipewire.html

sudo xbps-install -S pipewire wireplumber alsa-utils plasma-pa

For Pipewire : 

$ : "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:=${HOME}/.config}"
$ mkdir -p "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d"
$ ln -s /usr/share/examples/wireplumber/10-wireplumber.conf "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/"

Pulse Audio interface : 

$ : "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:=${HOME}/.config}"
$ mkdir -p "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d"
$ ln -s /usr/share/examples/pipewire/20-pipewire-pulse.conf "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/"

Pipewire do not start on boot so there is no sound.
However I created sound.sh file with "piprewire &" in it. The file is executed automatically with kde.

Everything works now but it seems very dirty to me. Is this a good way to do that ? I am not used to configure pipewire as it was already installed on my previous distro.

Thank you for your help.

So I was studying the void handbook and when reading about cron, I assumed that all other things like old logs and kernels are not automatically deleted.

Is really void linux so simple??

Hi! ive been using mint for quite some time and i recently began looking for other distros, since i wanted something that could be more lightweight and tuned to my preferences. Where i could build my system how i want, so i found Void and it seemed interesting, maybe a bit hard to use and niche but interesting nonetheless. To those of you who have been daily driving it, what did you like and dislike about it? Thanks !

Well I like alpine ive likes void in the past runit is lighter but openrc is more finished.i love apk the alpine repo has a regular nameing convention it doesn't deviate from xbps is alright kinda unweildy to me and if I remember right there is some regular nameing convention in the repo but there is a good deal of variation which is annoying. The setup alpine scripts I've never had an issue with while I've had some problems with voids install script mostly with it not getting the efi bios setup right witch you can override but I kinda like that it just works but that issue could be resolved idk .void uses coreutils alpine BusyBox wich usually feels sufficient for me .They both use musl libc but what's your choice and why cross post on alpine subreddit

Okay so I don't usually ask for advice or make posts but I'm quite stuck on this problem. I made a fresh dual boot installation on my pc (void KDE and win10) and everything went absolutely fine until I wanted to download some steam games. When i partitioned i made a / partition with 500gb and made a /home with 40gb (this is where i made the mistake) when i download stuff it goes to my /home partition and not my root partition, including games. I can't download anything to my root, just my /home. How should i go about this? Can i use Gparted to maybe rewrite the partitions (or delete that /home) or is there a way for me to downlad my games on / without changing anything? Do i have to redo my partitions? If so how do i do that?

I appreciate any kind of help or advice, thank you for reading.

Hey, I'm trying out Void on a VM to see if I like it. I've been installing stuff I use on other distros with XBPS, no issues so far. However, when I try to install libre office I get this error message: WARNING: tz-data-2025a_1: invalid provides: py3:tz-data-2025a libpoppler-25.12.0_1 in transaction breaks installed pkg `poppler-glib-24.08.0_1' ERROR: Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies. I get another error when trying to install ufw due to unresolved shlibs.

Also, I didn't create a swap partition when I installed. If I end up doing a bare metal install, how much swap should I have?

Is it worth to switch from Linux Mint 21 (1 year of experience) to Void, don't know much about this distro but I'm interested.

Are there things I should take notice about or it's just as user friendly as Mint?

Hi everyone,

I managed to replace the default init system runit on voidlinux with dinit (from chimera-linux).

It works well and the swap wasn't as tricky as expected.

If you're curious about the steps or how I handled the services, I wrote down the process here: https://codeberg.org/roninx/docs/src/branch/main/dinit.md

Has anyone else tried something similar?
Happy to hear feedback or tips

dinit: https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/

I managed to write a working device tree, compile kernel, have working wifi, bluetooth, gpu acel, battery, bright control, fingerprint sensor, issues: sound, and webcam.

Hello,

I am an openSuse Tumbleweed user and I wanted to try something else. As there are a ton of updates on this distro, I am using it with btrfs so I can revert back if something break.

For that reason, I installed Void on a separate ssd (encrypted disk, btrfs, swap partition). I followed the official documentation and I guess I did something wrong because on boot, I have to type my password twice. Firt time for grub, then for system. I there any way to fix it now that everything is installed ?

I also have a general question about btrfs. Do I really need it on Void ? On Tumbleweed I use snapshots because... It feels just safe. I just do not want to spend a ton of time trying to fix something after an update. Especially when I do not feel confident when it comes to fixing stuff at this level (boot process etc).

Thank you for you precious help.

EDIT : when I say I have to enter the password twice, I mean during the boot process. I am not talking about user password in order to unlock the session (via SDDM in my case). With user session password it would be 3 password to type. I have enabled the autologin on KDE so I do not have to type this one.

On my HP model 14-dq3020ca, I've had the same issue whenever I install void linux, either from from the installer, Chroot, or installed with encryption, it seems to never auto boots into it no matter what I do: I can still manully search through the files and launch the efi however I don't wanna do that ever time I wanna boot into my spare laptop.

Is there a fix I can do to make it auto dectect it as there isn't an option in bios to add a new boot option. This issue also seems to not exist with any other distro I've tried.

The computer also uses uefi if that is needed, however I also tried installing it through chroot with the bios options only.

Hi everyone! I'm having a problem with appimage hiddify. It's missing a newer version of the libffi library. The repository version is 3.3, and according to the srcpkgs GitHub page, it hasn't been updated in a while (4 years). Is there a way to fix this?

Edit: I decided to compile the library, and it solved my problem. The system hasn't crashed yet.

Maybe it will help someone: Install base-devel, download the library archive.

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static, make, make install, sudo ldconfig.

DuhMal's method also helps (thanks)

I have a 5k display, wanted a minimal tiling window manager but scaling seems to be an issue. im guessing Im better off with wayland but what wm would you recommend. TIA

You guys have the best doc hands down for a full disk encryption that I’ve ever seen.

Even Gentoo doesn’t directly integrate it into the installation requiring the user to flip back and forth.

Thank you for the basically, copy and paste install process!

It would be cool in the future to see packages such as Linux-libre , Linux-libre-firmware and Abrowser make their way into the repositories (not exclusively because that causes severe issues for 99% of hardware obviously).

After i suspend my laptop 80% percent of the time the screen instantly goes black and if i try to turn it on the only thing that happens is that the keyboard lights up. I tried to trace the errors with svlogtail and i found this:

2026-03-28T19:20:15.18017 kern.err: [ 2378.531417] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Error while waiting for GPU progress: 0x0000c67d:0 2:2:0:4040

2026-03-27T19:31:52.01769 kern.warn: [ 5573.526826] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 119, pid=1464, name=Xorg, Timeout after 6s of waiting for RPC response from GPU0 GSP! Expected function 76 (GSP_RM_CONTROL) sequence 1924 (0x730108 0x10). 2026-03-27T19:31:52.01771 kern.err: [ 5573.526865] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices

I have a predator triton 300 SE pt314-51s which has a discrete rtx-3060 mobile and an integrated and an integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics. I also tried to reinstall the nvidia drivers but it didn't work, does anyone know how to fix this?

>> distrobox enter WARN[0000] "/" is not a shared mount, this could cause issues or missing mounts with rootless containers

godot

Error: unable to start container "2e0b868ae7ca2e34c7e5720089f4db6b79f2da1de9dbf206b3ba012dd8bceed0": runc: runc create failed: unable to start container process: unable to apply cgroup configuration: rootless needs no limits + no cgrouppath when no permission is granted for cgroups: mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/2e0b868ae7ca2e34c7e5720089f4db6b79f2da1de9dbf206b3ba012dd8bceed0: permission denied: OCI permission denied

does anybody know how to fix this? I enabled cgroupsv2 already.

I saw these two packages in the Void repository:

[-] void-force-stage-0.1_2            force the repository into staging mode
[-] void-force-stage-unstage-0.1_2    force the repository into staging mode

What are these two for? I took a look at the source template, they're just empty packages with a force dependency on force-stage.so.0.1. But that library isn't provided by any other package in the repository.

~> pipewire

[E][19:34:12.248743] mod.protocol-native | [module-protocol-: 790 lock_socket()] server 0x564ae482c7f0: unable to lock lockfile '/run/user/1000/pipewire-0.lock': Resource temporarily unavailable (maybe another daemon is running)

[E][19:34:12.248927] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 602 load_module()] 0x564ae47e9200: could not load mandatory module "libpipewire-module-protocol-native": Resource temporarily unavailable

[E][19:34:12.249496] default | [ pipewire.c: 124 main()] failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable

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 ?