Yep, using it as a daily driver for a long long time. It's perfect for my needs and I just love the not-so-cutting edge approach, breaks a lot less than Arch does.
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Many arch users will disagree that it breaks... I think sometimes it's actually the users fault, and other times it's Nvidia drivers.
Maybe... but still, in my experience it breaks a lot less than Arch. Hell, I even use it as an Ent distro, I've set up a few NASes on it, still hasn't broken a damn thing, and most of them are running for like 5, 6 years now.
Yep, been using it as my daily driver for a few years now, aside from trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a few months. I've settled on running it with sway as my wm for the time being. I've generally been pretty happy with it. I like the package manager and the relative simplicity of the system, which requires a bit more work to set up but seems easier to understand/fix when something goes wrong (usually user error in my experience, lol.) The developers also proved that they could learn from their mistakes with a minimum of drama after the whole kerfluffle with the original creator. Most packages that I need that aren't in the repo can be had with flatpak. Overall, a relatively pleasant Linux distro experience.
Edit: Forgot to mention, in my experience an actually stable AND rolling release distribution!
Btw, here is a small void linux community for lemmy. It doesn't appear to be very active, but hopefully that will change with time.
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What about Void are you liking?
been using it for almost a year now.
it's been 18 years full time linux/bsd for me and it went knoppix -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch linux -> gentoo -> freebsd -> void
arch linux in 2008 was really good, and lasted for a couple of years. gentoo was a chore, because it's fully source based. freebsd is rock solid, amazing amazing system, i would be still using it if it weren't for aec applications and games. still using it on my homeserver.
void is blazing fast, highly reliable rolling release package system, amazingly simple init system. i have a 3060ti and it's working surprisingly good on wayland. it's just hassle-free for me, i love it.
Did you used FreeBSD with wi-fi? Any issues with It? Any other consideration about It?
yeah, with wi-fi. i didn't have any issues using wifi. like i said earlier, some applications don't have freebsd versions and manually compiling and keeping them update is a lot of hassle. other than that highly reliable system.
Nice I'm eagerly to try OpenBSD and maybe FreeBSD sometime.
What's it look like? And why do so many distros neglect to have a screenshot page?
Because it doesn't matter, you can customize them all however you like
It's a minimalist distro, so no DE by default
I used Void for a while and I loved it! I had to move off because I kept having to make packages for the esoteric programs I kept using (cc65, Zoom, etc.). but I loved every bit of it. Even making the packages was pleasant, and it's the first distro I ever contributed packages to.
Also, at the time I was using musl, and it was good, but not perfect. I'd recommend the glibc version for 0 headaches, but the musl version was very fun.
Been using it a while and I genuinely cant find anything to complain about. xbps is the best pkg manager, runit is quick and gets out the way and all my architectures are supported
Works great on low resources.
Aside from Nvidia drivers, Void is home.
What problem do you have with nvidia drivers on void ? Should just work if following the guide on their documentation
Idk nvidia-dkms has always worked perfectly for me (on AMD now).
Yep! I used it as a daily driver for ~a year, switched off to try something new, and have recently switched back indefinitely.
Only distro I’ve ever switched back to after leaving, and that’s because it’s where I plan to stay. It really lives in such a sweet spot of up to date, stable, and simple/hackable.
With a nice handbook, friendly community, runit, xbps-src, and multi lib/arch support, Void is truly great.
It doesn't matter what backend you use as long as it suits your needs. At this point nobody should use any frontend which uses xorg as its backend.
Edit. As user KSP_Atlas very fairly pointed my mistake about Nvidia, I stand as corrected.
What about nvidia? It's not like nvidia support is good yet
Very good point and totally my mistake. Luckily Nvidia promised Wayland support at Q4 of 2023.
Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.
I don't like using X, but Wayland isn't ready for power users yet. I don't think people generally would notice the difference.
I used it for a year a year or so ago and changed for some reason. Recently did a fresh install and I am seriously unable to think why I left it.
It's insanely fast, performant, resource-friendly and much more community driven than other distros with the void-packages repository on GitHub. Oh, and it doesn't have systemd so my install boots in 3 seconds flat, compared to the 22 seconds for Fedora 38.
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