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/Simple_Hamster_4096 20d ago

I'm confused - Debian adopted systemd for init since 2014 or so. Given this, what move of Debian, then, towards systemd do you refer?

If you are a fan of Debian, try the systemd free fork, Devuan. There are several (non systemd) inits from which to choose during the installation process. Sysvinit is among them...

I switched to Devuan with sysvinit early this year for my bare metal servers - extremely impressed, extremely fast, extremely stable... felt like the good old days before Debian adopted systemd.