#Void Linux

[marcelinestreehouse]

Who is KittyCatCat0

Hey all! I am KittyCatCat0, previously known as Waluigi0. I am transfem, and my pronouns are She/Her, They/Them! Yes I did go through the Celeste pipeline, deal with it. I am pan, and on the aroace spectrum. I am very obviously a furry, my fursona being a cat, cause I love cats and always will! I love playing games, my favourites being Celeste, Minecraft, and what I am playing for the first time and already loving, OneShot! I love all the arts, but have a soft spot for music! I am a linux nerd and hop from Void, to Arch, or Gentoo every once in a while.

My blog is very prideful, and I am very open about being transgender, as well as being queer. I am also in full support of Palestine. My blog is SFW for the most part, or at least I try to keep it that way! To anyone that doesn't support Palestine, Trans, And queer people, You can screw yourself I don't want you here.

[koolcatzblog]

using void linux + gnome on my laptop.

surprised this works as well as it does considering that gnome has a reputation for being hard to use without systemd but elogind seems to do the trick more than well enough

desktop is still using fedora kde tho in part because void doesn't work with secure boot out of the box but also because i do not want to reinstall my OS on my desktop just yet.

[daemonhxckergrrl]

What distro of Linux do you use, and what would you recommend to someone who has been using Ubuntu for a decade because ae's scared to move away from aer familiar package manager? You know. Hypothetically.

i use Void, bc Arch was too mainstream slkdfjsdlk (okay no fr i use Void bc i kept seeing it on r/unixporn and i wanted a distro that had the "go nuts show nuts" curate-your-own-experience style Arch has but without systemd - no judgement if you like it, but it's not my vibe).

i used to use Mint and have done on-and-off since version 4 Daryna - Crunchbang was discontinued around that time and i wanted another Ubuntu-based distro to switch to.

so, if someone were looking to try something new (hypothetically, of course d: ) i would recommend considering the following first:

what's aer typical workload (and therefore what would be suitable) ?

how far would ae be willing to explore beyond aer comfort zone ?

how much time would ae have to learn new things ?

trying one or two distros out in a VM might be a good way for aem to familiarise aemself w/ any immediate quirks and pick a distro to install on bare metal (perhaps alongside aer existing distro ?)

for something more familiar i might recommend Debian Testing or LMDE (the version of Mint based directly on Debian) as they share much of the same internal architecture. i believe Debian offers a netinstall that's barebones like Arch/Void/Gentoo if trying new software (perhaps including a new DE/WM/Wayland compositor) without losing all familiarity would be of interest to this person.

for something more adventurous i would suggest Arch and perhaps picking a full DE to start with, then maybe trying an install that's more uh selective. personally, Void is no harder than Arch but the community is smaller and a person who hypothetically chose this as their new distro would not only have the barebones nature of that class of distro + an unfamiliar package manager to contend with, but additionally an unfamiliar init system (though runit is terrifyingly simple, i must say). there's also Artix, which is Arch but w/out systemd (i think they offer runit or openrc).

there are plenty of wacky distros (Bedrock, Fedora Silverblue, NixOS, Qubes, Gentoo) that would be fun to experiment with on a non-critical system/VM but they're very far removed from a decade of Ubuntu.

i appreciate this is a long answer, but you asked a lovely question and it's fun to indulge in uh um what's definitely totally a hypothetical d: if someone were to change distro i hope ae know ae can reach out to ask further questions :3

thanks for your ask ! <3 ^w^

[celeste-hearts]

Compiling Aseprite on Void Linux

No hearts for now, but I've recently picked up an old PC I didn't use in a while and installed Void Linux on it.

Well, I use Aseprite to make the hearts but Void isn't included in the official compiling guide, nor there is a magical AUR coming to my rescue like in Arch (and before you tell me about xbps-src, it doesn't include Aseprite in the repos, I checked)

So I spent an entire day figuring out what were the required dependencies needed to compile it on Void. Instructions are on GitHub:

(Technically you could also buy it on Steam and run it from there, but I didn't have to pay by compiling it. And best of all, it's also legal.)

[void-linux-musl]

minimalist rice >:) who want me

[okhnid]

I love and enjoy lack of systemd but Void Linux had genuinely ruined my life

Arch got me addicted to AUR

Arch got me addicted to AUR

ARch got me addicted to AUR

I am addicted to AUR

Flatpak servers are too slow for my location

Void has network issues for my chipset sometimes

[marko-nerd-rambling-blog]

Starting out with void linux

Hey hey! welcome back. This is my first post that's not an introduction.

So i've been into linux for almost a year, and since then i've learned a lot. But i haven't limited my options to linux only, but also to other unix systems like bsd. When i was browsing r/unix, i saw someone commenting that one should try void linux, because its similar to bsd in a way: its minimalistic, transparent and easy to understand. its very good for those who are willing to start out with linux by learning how it works.

Its main features are the xbps package manager (you cant install programs via source code compiling like in gentoo) and the fact it uses runit as the init system, which (i think) is supposed to be some weird hybrid between systemd and sysvinit.

So yesterday i decided to give a try and made a bootable usb stick. its relatively easy to install. the hardest thing would be you having to know how to partition your system in a way that actually fits your needs, but even that is explained in the official documentation. Wi-fi support works surprisingly good by default, even better than debian.

I started out from nothing and decided to install i3wm in it, but since i had no prior knowledge in twms, i went to the arch wiki (void's official site said you can consult things there) to see how to install and configure it, and i also looked up yt videos. its nice that you can work on a pc with just a keyboard, not needing to use a mouse. reminds me a lot of those old keyboard-only portable computers. they're kinda cute.

As for the programs...i installed xfce's thunar file browser but it was a bit faulty. i couldn't access the trash bin to recover/delete files. i think i should install mate's caja or something? maybe.

Firefox works nice ig, but if you want really basic web browsing, like browsing sites that dont include js, you should try midori or lynx with framebuffer enabled (havent tried this one. only plain lynx on debian's cli). if i want to listen to a song or something i can use smtube and it doesnt consume much resources. a basic libreoffice install works wonderfully!! my 1.3 ghz cpu could handle calc (linux excel) better and without lagging than let's say debian...

So that was all guys. Can't see what the future awaits for me. maybe i should try openbsd/netbsd sometime soon. they interest me a lot. I hope you all enjoyed reading this. stay safe and see you soon!

[fanly]

Void Linux，轻量灵活且独特的Linux操作系统 - 泪雪网

[marcelinestreehouse]

Customized system again!!

You might be surprised to find out this is Mac OS. I love Linux so much but it just does not work well on my m1 Mac, so customization is relatively minimal. I tried my best to replicate my other computers Linux rice which was Void-I3wm-Polybar, but I think this honestly looks better than anything I ever did with that. All software used to do this are open source!

Top Bar: Sketchybar Window Manager: Yabai Operating System: Mac OS Color Scheme: Gruvbox Wallpaper: Gruvbox Wallpaper Terminal: Alacritty I'll post the dot files if enough people ask.

[koolcatzblog]

finally trying out dwm, the final boss of linux.

[daemonhxckergrrl]

switching to void appears to have unintentionally resolved two latency-related bugs w/ my i3 scratchpad script and my resvim script.

the scratchpad script would occasionally mark and move the previously active container rather than the one it just launched, and the resvim script had a first-launch bug where if you passed it any files to open, it would complain about no remote vim instance (which it was currently launching) and open a standard vim w/ the files in. so then i'd have to close that, detach from the remote instance behind it, and feed the now-running remote instance the files.

i should build in some failsafe to prevent this, but it's nice it just works by switching distro lmao

[sdizdar]

Void Linux

[void-linux-musl]

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

[distrochooser]

As the official distrochooser myself, I don't see why not.

You know I talk a lot about installing void to my chromebook, but I can use the SD card to perhaps attempt to install void on my MacBook pro. I'm feeling very violent today and want to cause irreparable harm to this MacBook for being super buggy. It's also my fault for using Ubuntu on this but my dad helped me install Ubuntu on this MacBook and he introduced me to the wonderful world of Linux with it. So what do you think, should I start new and try void?

[puppy-linux-official]

The void has taken up IT security. Denial of service is not a security incident, he says.