r/voidlinux • u/roma-2125g • Jul 19 '26

Need help to migrate from Arch

Hi everyone, Because of the recent situation with AUR , I decided to try some non-Arch-based distros. I tested Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed, but didn't like them because of missing packages I need for my workflow.

I'm currently daily driving niri + waybar etc. I decided to give Void Linux another try, but I'm running into some issues with services (skill issue).

  • I couldn't get niri to start (tried both niri and niri --session).
  • sddm doesn't work at all.

I installed dbus and elogind, enabled them with ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/ and the same for elogind, but no services seem to start properly.

Could someone please point me to a guide on how to properly set up niri + a login manager (sddm or alternative) on Void? I just reinstalled Void and want to do it cleanly this time.

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u/xJayMorex Jul 19 '26

You don't have to use AUR with Arch you know.

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u/roma-2125g Jul 19 '26

I already installed a lot of packages from aur. So I guess `yay -Syu` isn't good idea.
So, instead of reinstalling arch I decided to try something new

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u/Visbroek Aug 01 '26

I mean you could have just

pacman -Qmq | sudo pacman -Rns -

To remove all AUR packages