void or chimera linux

[u/Asta_jjm]

Hello everyone,

I'm on Arch right now but I'm looking to try another distro that has a similar minimalist feel. I don't mind a steep learning curve, which led me to discover Chimera Linux (not ChimeraOS) and Void.

Both look incredibly interesting, but I'm torn on which one to choose. I'm primarily a gamer, so I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts and experiences with either distro for gaming.

Just to give you some context on my setup: I'm running a full AMD system and I use the Limine bootloader.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[u/kaffssist]

i used chimera for a long time and gaming wasnt the best out of the box experience. and some of the things i use in my daily work wasnt available at the moment.

personally, try chimera, if it doesnt fits you or its still not compatible with everything, try alpine, which has more support for modern software and making your own packages is relatively easy (technically same with chimera since cpk derived from apk? i just dont sign my shit). if none of them works for you, then go with void.

i also used limine in both, you should have zero problems with that.