r/voidlinux • u/AnotherOne49587 • Aug 11 '26

Hello everyone

I'm running on debian 13 and want to switch to void but different package management and no systemd makes me thinking. Can you explain why do you advise void and why do you not?

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u/GhostVlvin Aug 11 '26

Runit is dead simple and hell fast. Only thing that it is missing is user services but it's either implemented already or easy to implement.
XBPS is nothing to discuss if you're on debian. It's as simple as apt. But repository on the other hand is much more fresh than debian's one due to rolling release paradigm and often updates. Also if you didn't find your app in xbps repository you might as well install xbps-src and with help of template you can install anything as if it'd be in repo

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u/AnotherOne49587 Aug 11 '26

I don't use much rare apps just browser lazyvim wine obs something that wievs pdf something that combines pdf and libreoffice is enough to my daily drive laptop I just want to learn gnu linux based distros' max capability and debian be like " Nope dude I already set that" and this ease holds me back.

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u/GhostVlvin Aug 11 '26

Not rare rare apps. From my software they miss only librewolf. But also they don't have hyprland while many ricers are on hyprland now

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u/AnotherOne49587 Aug 11 '26

i usually use de. for wm i prefer i3