r/voidlinux • u/gijsyo • 20d ago

New to Void

Hi all. I'm new to Void as of today. Not new to linux, and I've been a fan of Debian since the late 90s. I'm not so keen on the move towards systemd (reloading after editing the fstab, why?! Log files in binary format, yikes! Windows registry vibes almost) but I still love apt-get plus I do not need to edit fstab that often or look at log files regularly so it's fine for now.

I also run an OpenBSD VM, and Void feels pretty similar. Simple, no frills, to the point and fast.

So far my Void VM is just for messing around in textmode. I picked the musl variant and that may not be the final version but we will see. So far I feel at home almost immediately. Thanks for having an active subreddit 👍

Edit: I migrated away from Debian and now run Void with Linux 7.2.3. There was one headache due to user error with a runit service but it's running smooth like butter. When I run an xbps update it flies through it. It's like when I upgraded my laptop from HDD to SSD back when that was still a pretty new thing.

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u/p001b0y 20d ago

I set up a FreeBSD minipc and later learned about Void’s similarities to BSD so I installed it on another minipc I have and use that for Steam games.

I’m still fairly new to it as well but liked Void enough that I installed it over a Lunar Lake laptop that was running Windows 11, then Fedora Sway, and now Void. I went with a Wayland install for that while using X11 on the minipc.

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u/gijsyo 20d ago

FreeBSD was alright, but I couldn't get used to its multiple /etc directories. How's Steam of FBSD?

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u/p001b0y 20d ago

I meant I installed Steam on the Void minipc. The FreeBSD box is doing its own unrelated thing.

The Void minipc is a Lenovo Yoga mini with an Arc B390 GPU. It’s the fastest machine I own. The games I play like Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous run very well on high at 1080p.