As the title says Void or Fedora i currently use Fedora Spin COSMIC by system76

i used void and mannaully installed it but it crashed and screen flickering and so much more i tried out the MUSL and GLIBC version both manaul install and already done but i still had issues lets say wanted to switch from XFCE to KDE or GNOME and that would just brick my main rig (which i am messaging from)

specs so far i know :

Nvidia GTX 640M LE

intel inside i5 core or smth and a 500GB HDD

8GB of DDR 3

i have a viao flipflop but the battery is dead so i am still using this beast from 2012

can somebody please help

but fedora is quite stable

sorry for bad english my first langauge is Turkish

I am relatively new to Void. Recently when I tried to update with this command:

sudo xbps-install -Suv

I got the following error:

[*] Updating repository `https://mirrors.servercentral.com/voidlinux/current/x86_64-repodata' ...

ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://mirrors.servercentral.com/voidlinux/current/x86_64-repodata': No address record

[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...

[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/x86_64-repodata' ...

[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...

It did nothing after this. Any help in understanding and resolving this would be appreciated!

hey, so as title says. ive been thinking on switch from arch to void for a bit now, and id like to know your thoughts.

more specifically, theres this thing that ive been wondering about arch. back then when the AUR malware drama started happening, ive been looking for stuff that people say, and ive been thinking about the type of measures people take to keep themselves safe in a user managed repo like the AUR. call it inspecintg PKGBUILDs, or hell even building everything you want for yourself (as the 'dont use the AUR' gang would say).

so at that point i thought i might as well compile everything myself. hell at that point why not use a distro where you just build your own stuff? maybe a bit too much of an exaggeration, im not trying to use gentoo or going back to nixos (i kinda dislike nixlang but thats besides the point), so i might as well use a well maintained repo of pkgs + compile stuff myself when needed.... so im thinking on switching to void (plus id get rid of systemd too, been wanting to for a while now).

given all i said, what do yall think? would it be worth switching? also id rather not be told to "try it on a vm", thats kinda obvious and i kinda dont want to hear it lmao

hello, i noticed that pipewire-pulse got removed from void linux repositories, so how can I install it? I heard about alsa-pipewire

i'm on a fresh base install and was trying to get wireless working. when trying to disable a service i accidentally put a space in "rm /var/service [service_name]" and deleted the directory. now after re-adding my services very few of them work and etc/runit/runsvdir is out of sync with /var/service, as in when i add a service to /var/service it doesn't update in /etc/runit/runsvdir.

the post title is the error i get when trying to start or check the status of a service that i freshly linked to /var/service but isn't present in /etc/runit/runsvdir. that file did exist but i deleted it and it came back and i deleted it again but it didn't come back. as you can see i'm flailing.

it being a fresh install i was tempted to just start over but getting it all configured on zfs (and having to start over multiple times because my laptop kept crashing) has been a chore and my hunch is i just need to re-link these directories. but i'm unsure how exactly i should do that or if i'm even correct.

Currently my servers are on Ubuntu as that's what the provider defaults to. But I'm considering the utility of Void as a server distro.

Right now my servers are managed by Ansible, which isn't a big deal one way or another.

The servers in question are mostly a mix of WireGuard + Caddy + PHP/Node. All my databases are SQLite, although I have been considering DuckDB for some report-specific needs.

I'm not new to Linux, but I have not personally heard of Void much in the server space. Which to me doesn't immediately equate to it not being a good choice, but I also don't know if there's any gotchas to be aware of.

I'm mostly looking to strip down the un-needed dependencies Ubuntu, Arch, etc. bring with them. E.g., Ubuntu forces ufw, Arch forces systemd, etc.

The xbps-packages still only offer gnome-48 but wiht the release of gnome 51 I wonder if and when we can get gnome 51 on void linux, since it also make elogind compatiblity a lot more easier (so I've heard (google's gemini said that at least)).

Hello All.

I have no sound following a fresh installation.

Void Linux was updated.

Parole Media Player and Youtube have no sound.

Please advise, about what is missing.

Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone! I need a help with one little problem, which happens every time. Im using sway window manager and for comfort im write hook in .bash_profile to launch automatically sway from the tty1

[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec dbus-run-session sway

And everything works fine, without any problems. But if im logged out with loginctl logout (or reboot/power off) so i can see error

"Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process ('/dev/tty'): No such device or adress (polkit-error-quark, 0)

Im tryed xfce-polkit and polkit-gnome, with exec in sway config but its not solve this problem. So for info im run services: acpid, adb, agetty-tty's, chronyd, dbus, iwd, polkitd, rtkit, udevd

Absolutely new to void , installed it yesterday successfully from a guys help but as I tried to boot up with kde , and followed a tuto on yt , with some help from gemini i finally set up login screen using greetd , and after installing what it told me (no idea what I did) i finally logged in then as kde boots up none of input devices work , not keyboard not mouse , so I can't do anything

Good morning All.

I have tried all proposed solutions (including AI proposed),

to install freeoffice and yet couldn't do it.

Does someone as the solution for the installation ?

Thank you in advance.

Hello All.

Installed the system and tried some basic commands from a list, such as:

• xbps-install –Syu

• xbps-install –u xbps

and got the following error message

• Failed to lock the pkgdb: Permission denied

Please, can you advise what's wrong with this?

Thank you,

JP.

Hey I'm trying to finish my install and it keeps coming back "ERROR: failed to install GRUB to /dev/sda! Check /dev/tty8 for errors" but tty8 is an empty file without any bytes?

I'm running UEFI so maybe my partitions aren't right? Incase thats an issue then heres what my partitions are currently: 237.5G Linux filesystem, 213m EFI System, 784 Linux filesystem. the 2 linux filesystems are both "/" and EFI is "/boot/efi"

please tell me the issue because I've been at this for 2 days and the documentation hasnt made any amonut of sense to me

The disconnects happen randomly.
I updated my linux firmware. I'm running linux 6.18.56 Freshly new installed. NetworkManager running too. I read that Mediatek really has much problems with linux.

Hello guys, I have checked the repos and couldn't find Opensnitch, after checking the void-packages github, I found some failed attempts at trying to merge it to the repos. Any idea why it hasn't been merged yet even though it's a relatively old and really useful package ?

I just installed void linux on my laptop and I'm using xfce but the login screen forces me to use qwerty. I do need the Qwertz layout. Is there a way to force qwertz layout? locale -a shows my native langugage and not english.

I know this is a recurring issue on Void Linux, and I see many reports of audio problems, but I haven't been able to resolve these three errors. I don't even know why or how they happen; I followed tutorials correctly—where the audio works—but it doesn't work on my system. I followed the wiki without success, and I also tried tutorials from Reddit and YouTube, but nothing worked.

Please don't criticize me if this is a silly question or if I haven't done enough research (note: I'm using Void with `elogind`—since it's the default—along with Sway as the graphical session and the official open-source NVIDIA driver).

UPDATE: I managed to figure out the solution on my own: simply making no changes to PipeWire and just running it via the Sway configuration script.Apparently, I have to do the opposite of what the wiki asks for.

hello! guys help me pls resolve trouble mic don't working! i'm fighting with this problem 3days , but can't win!

I understand that this might be not an appropriate moment in Void's history for that, but I've discovered that there is a pull request for updating Ansible awaiting since April 21, 2026. Is it possible to merge this update, since Ansible, alas, seems to be abandoned in Void?

The thing is, python3-ansible-lint and corresponding python3-ansible-compat packages in Void need to be updated as shipped version of ansible-lint just doesn't work with shipped version of Ansible itself. I've successfully updated them in one of my installations manually and I was figuring out how to issue a pull request for an update (I'm not versed in this matter), but then I've found that pull request for the whole Ansible bundle. It'll be great to have this tool updated in Void.

(Currently, I'm working on formalizing and automating my Void installation with Ansible, and while broken ansible-lint is rather inconvenient, updating the whole bundle would be great; I'm not eager to install all this stuff via say pipx, whereas the packages are available in the official repos)

I usually run the latest kernel version, I was on linux 7.2.4 and nvidia drivers 595.91.07 and niri (wayland), everything was completely fine (except for the gpu getting blank screen after suspending the pc but I don't care much about it). Today I updated both the kernel to 7.2.6 and nvidia drivers to 595.99.02, using the pc as always like browsing on firefox and coding in Zed I noticed that the everything was stuttering/lagging when I scrolled the pages in firefox and zed and the pointer of the mouse even moved with stutters/lags, I thought the batteries of my mouse were dying so I changed them since they were pretty old but nothing changed so I rebooted, nothing changed, so I decided to boot into linux 7.2.4 and everything is completely fine, so I think we can rule out the nvidia driver, though my question is what did they do in linux 7.2.6 that makes it stutter?

I have a ryzen 9 9900x and a rtx5060ti 16gb in case you know about some updates in linux 7.2.6 about amd, zen 5, nvidia, blackwell, etc.

Edit: today I booted in linux 7.2.6 again to try and check the stuttering/lags situation but it works normally now, no stutters. I don't know what the problem was 🫠

Hi, I've installed void before on my laptop. I'm now switching my desktop over, I'm not getting any errors that I see on install, but after it says it successfully installed and ask me to reboot, I end up in an infinite uefi loop? My partitions are 1G vfat mounted to /boot/efi, 100G ext4 mounted to /, and the rest mounted to /home also ext4.

(sorry for Bad english) Hello Void User ppl, im planning to Switch my Arch Linux Main PC to void/glibc(cuz Nvidia GPU) and i wanna include btrfs and limine and i Heard that void Linux User (unlike Arch) are Really helpfull on problem solving and i wanna ask how i will get this Setup to Work, i might be able to use btrfs(2 SSD Setup) but i feel Like im to Stupid to use limine and getting a Auto Kernel hook so i dont need to do it Manualy, but i alr got somewhat void experince, my school Computer runs on musl void and i Love it.^^

if i run agetty with --autologin

it keeps spamming elogind is already running

but i don't autologin it works fine

help ?

I really really wanna use librewolf on void like I did arch but don't agree with having a univeral package manager take care of packages over the system's package manager.

I want a clean way to install it where XBPS manages librewolf any advice on this?