I must say I am enjoying Void Linux w/xfce so far. May just switch from MXLinux…

Anyone else playing/using Void…?

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What about Void are you liking?

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What’s it look like? And why do so many distros neglect to have a screenshot page?

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Because it doesn’t matter, you can customize them all however you like

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It’s a minimalist distro, so no DE by default

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Yep, been using it as my daily driver for a few years now, aside from trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a few months. I’ve settled on running it with sway as my wm for the time being. I’ve generally been pretty happy with it. I like the package manager and the relative simplicity of the system, which requires a bit more work to set up but seems easier to understand/fix when something goes wrong (usually user error in my experience, lol.) The developers also proved that they could learn from their mistakes with a minimum of drama after the whole kerfluffle with the original creator. Most packages that I need that aren’t in the repo can be had with flatpak. Overall, a relatively pleasant Linux distro experience.

Edit: Forgot to mention, in my experience an actually stable AND rolling release distribution!

Btw, here is a small void linux community for lemmy. It doesn’t appear to be very active, but hopefully that will change with time.

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Thanks, good bot!

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It doesn’t matter what backend you use as long as it suits your needs. At this point nobody should use any frontend which uses xorg as its backend.

Edit. As user KSP_Atlas very fairly pointed my mistake about Nvidia, I stand as corrected.

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What about nvidia? It’s not like nvidia support is good yet

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Very good point and totally my mistake. Luckily Nvidia promised Wayland support at Q4 of 2023.

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Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.

I don’t like using X, but Wayland isn’t ready for power users yet. I don’t think people generally would notice the difference.

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been using it for almost a year now.

it’s been 18 years full time linux/bsd for me and it went knoppix -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch linux -> gentoo -> freebsd -> void

arch linux in 2008 was really good, and lasted for a couple of years. gentoo was a chore, because it’s fully source based. freebsd is rock solid, amazing amazing system, i would be still using it if it weren’t for aec applications and games. still using it on my homeserver.

void is blazing fast, highly reliable rolling release package system, amazingly simple init system. i have a 3060ti and it’s working surprisingly good on wayland. it’s just hassle-free for me, i love it.

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Did you used FreeBSD with wi-fi? Any issues with It? Any other consideration about It?

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yeah, with wi-fi. i didn’t have any issues using wifi. like i said earlier, some applications don’t have freebsd versions and manually compiling and keeping them update is a lot of hassle. other than that highly reliable system.

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Nice I’m eagerly to try OpenBSD and maybe FreeBSD sometime.

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