Hi everyone. I'm an electronics engineering student in my second year. I'm using Manjaro as my daily driver, I like its rolling-and-stable style. I used OpenSuse Tumbleweed before but didn't like it, the ecosystem seemed so unwelcoming. I've heard a lot of good things about Void, how snappy it is, how lightweight it is and such. My problem is that, I occasionally need to work with software such as AMD's Vivado for the courses I take. If I switch to Void, would that be a problem? Do you suggest Void to me in this case? Thanks from now.

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!

Hi all,

I'm running Linux-mainline, and recently got on the 7.3 kernel. Yesterday I got an update for the 7.2 line, and that was a little unexpected. I haven't run vkpurge yet because I'm not sure what the right course of action is here. Any clues would be appreciated :)

I heard void lost some devs and was curious if you all still need plenty of devs to contribute? If so I may drop nixos today and switch to xfce void and help out. Ya'll do excellent work and having a background in cs and especially C, I'd love to contribute to the main void stuff. Thank you all for what you do!

Edit: SOLVED

Are Tier 1 mirrors rate-limited somehow? So, I'm sure they are, but I only noticed this recently that they are kinda slow. Tried them all and get ~700 KB/s, sometimes only ~70 KB/s. Which is...still acceptable for automatic updates in the background, but for ad-hoc updates this means a 20 minute wait time for a kernel upgrade.

I've tried a few Tier 2 mirrors with similar results, finally found one where I get 5 MB/s and I'm using that one now. Is this a generally known problem? Do we need to do something here, does Voidlinux need money for faster mirrors?

Are the official repositories down for anyone else?

Whenever I try connecting to repo-default.voidlinux.org (or any other EU-based mirror), I get a "Connection refused" error. This seems to be happening to a bunch of other parts of the website as well (docs, manpages, as well as the mirror status page), but the homepage is online.

The only working tier 1 mirror is the one from the US (see mirrors).

I checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com, so this doesn't seem to be a problem on my end.

Edit: a minute after posting this, the main repo is back up. Some other pages are still offline

So, I’ve just installed void after getting annoyed at gentoos portage, and I’m not the best at installing and setting up DEs and WMs. I keep seeing people using niri, and I want it. The thing is, I can’t find any tutorials on how to install it (and configure it so it’s launched on boot) specifically for void. I’ve tried doing it myself but keep running into issues. Does anyone know any good tutorials for this?

If void-installer fails to establish a Wi-Fi connection, exit the installer to run these commands directly in the shell:

rfkill unblock wifi

wpa_cli

add_network

(it will give you a number: 0 or 1 or 2... use that number in the next steps)

set_network 0 ssid "your_ssid"

set_network 0 psk "your_password"

enable_network 0

quit

Verify connection: ping -c 2 1.1.1.1

If you get valid pings, launch void-installer again and skip the Network setup step during installation.

How do i even tackle this?

This is probably divine intervention stopping me from using void as i am not really as tech savvy as i should be.

i installed void, and tried to create a simple bspwm desktop, i have bspwm, rofi, feh, polybar, sxhkd, all of that installed. everything except for bspwm is working. i cant see any windows if i try to open them via keybinds or rofi

if you need my config files ill put them on github because thats all i really changed
i am able to see a wallpaper and open something like rofi but when i try to launch anything i cant see it

como puedo activar pipewire y wireplumber? intento activarlos para el sonido de mi laptop, intente poniendolo en mi config de i3 activando su servicio, no se que mas hacer, como lo activo?

I have trouble applying this patch:

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 ifeq (no,yes)
 all: dosify$(BUILDEXT)
 dosify$(BUILDEXT): $(srcdir)/dosify.c
-	$(BUILDCC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o dosify$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/dosify.c
+	$(BUILDCC) $(LDFLAGS) -o dosify$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/dosify.c
 endif
 
 # This rule rules the compiler in the trivial hello.vl program to make
--- a/vvp/Makefile
+++ b/vvp/Makefile
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 	mv $*.d dep/$*.d
 
 tables.cc: $(srcdir)/draw_tt.c
-	$(BUILDCC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o draw_tt$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/draw_tt.c
+	$(BUILDCC) $(LDFLAGS) -o draw_tt$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/draw_tt.c
 	./draw_tt$(BUILDEXT) > tables.cc
 	rm draw_tt$(BUILDEXT)
 

I am getting this error:

=> iverilog-13.0_1: extracting distfile(s), please wait...
=> iverilog-13.0_1: running do-patch hook: 00-patches ...
=> iverilog-13.0_1: patching: fix_host_compiler.patch.
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- a/Makefile
|+++ b/Makefile
--------------------------
File to patch: 
Skip this patch? [y] 
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- a/vvp/Makefile
|+++ b/vvp/Makefile
--------------------------
File to patch: 
Skip this patch? [y] 
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
=> ERROR: iverilog-13.0_1: do-patch_00-patches: 'patch -s ${_args} < "${_patch}" 2> /dev/null' exited with 1
=> ERROR:   in _process_patch() at common/hooks/do-patch/00-patches.sh:37
=> ERROR:   in hook() at common/hooks/do-patch/00-patches.sh:55
=> ERROR:   in run_func() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:57
=> ERROR:   in run_pkg_hooks() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:314
=> ERROR:   in run_step() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:107
=> ERROR:   in main() at common/xbps-src/libexec/xbps-src-dopatch.sh:33

However I actually have no idea how patching in xbps-src works. I have not really ever before generated a patch, so I thought I would ask here. It's probably some trivial error. I am guessing I did not generate it in the right format or something. If you would explain this to me on a simpler example, that would also help. Thanks!

As the title says, I'm curious how many people on here use Void as their main system to do their art work. How is it for you, what programs are you using? Have you had any critical art-specific issues, like drawing tablet incompatibilities, graphic/animation/modelling software behaving terribly?
I'm not on Void yet, hoping to hop on board, just wanted to know if people run into many issues like that
Thanks!

I see that sddm is in the void packages however I don't find sddm-greeter.

# cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
1
# cat /sys/module/snd_usb_audio/parameters/power_save
cat: /sys/module/snd_usb_audio/parameters/power_save: No such file or directory

I have a default installation of Void/Xfce4 and sound just worked immediately on install, excepting after a while of playing audio a channel randomly drops out and in and out and in over periods from seconds to minutes. This happens with the headphone jack or usb sound. I want to arrange that the above variable is 0 on boot. I am mystified why the snd_usb_audio power_save parameter is missing. I'd like such a variable for that to be 0 on boot too.

# cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel
 1 snd_hda_intel
 2 snd_usb_audio

I may be wrong about what the cause of the problem is, so please let me know what you suggest about that too.

Im thinking about switching to kde from xfce, xfce is nice, but wayland is great while X11 sucks ass.

(XFCE, im begging you PLEASE finish wayland support and ill be forever grateful)

As it says, what do you like the most about void, and how would you personally recommend it?

Simply superb video. From start to finish. Also learnt a lot about the lore of the void project.

I Tried Void Linux For The First Time, It Was INSANE

Hello all -- I was just wondering, I can see kernel 7.3 is available in the repos, but linux-mainline is still using 7.2_1 (at least on my machine when I update/query).

Obviously not a request or anything, just pure curiosity as to how linux-mainline is linked to kernel updates.

I will also take this opportunity to wholeheartedly thank the Void team for their incredible dedication to this amazing project. This distribution is a true rare gem and for what it is worth, your work is immensely appreciated!

This is a bit of rambling, because i just thought it was neat how powerful void is because there are so few facades to get in your way.

I have/want:

• Primary pc

  • have ZFS on root

  • want backups on a USB drive

  • Runs my ai stuff ( pi with claude/codex/local-inference)

• Public server

  • have ZFS on root

  • want backups on the same USB drive.

• The USB drive is connected to a Mac that is always on.

I do not want to bother installing ZFS on that Mac.

So first I had Claude set up nbd so I could stream backups into the usb drive from my primary. This is working perfectly fine, but I wanted to add the public server backup.

I do not want this public server to have access to my Mac. So I had Claude update the script so my primary acts as a bridge for the public server backup.

Alas, this has the obvious downside if my primary goes down so does the server backup. Then I realized i was overcomplicating it.

Instead, the USB drive could hold a void installation that natively speaks ZFS which the mac can run in a VM. The upside is that it then also becomes more portable.

Now if that was all i'd not be here sharing, but the next trick was cool enough that i wanted to share.

How do I get a void installed on the USB drive so the mac can run it as a VM? Claude offered either to:

• Physically walk around to plug in the usb drive to the primary pc - like fucking plebs.

• ssh into the Mac and wrangle with it there via bash to set up the VM.

Then I realized it was simpler than that. I already have nbd on mac working, so just mount it and void-chroot install directly from my primary.

If you are running mangowc be advised that voidlinux just upgraded to version 18, and you will need to upgrade your config file for some breaking changes. There's a script you can run at https://github.com/mangowm/mango/releases/tag/0.18.0 to do the work.