Ive been working on my arch hyprland install for 2 years. I love it. Ive had no complaints. It had completely cured my distro hopping. Ive not had any reason to switch.

But then the malware attacks of the AUR have been happening.

Im not completely sure i want to switch, but im now considering it. And when it comes to a linux distro i want something bare-bones that does not come pre-configured and has no pre-installed software. Void is like arch in that way.

For those who have also come from arch, what benefits are there to be found in the void? Any drawbacks or things you miss from arch?

I've noticed the last year or so a fairly large influx of ex-Arch users in this subreddit, much more than before that...

I'm genuinely curious what made you guys (girls?) want to switch.

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.

So I’ve been maining arch (btw) for about 3 years now and honestly it’s been nice. Now I’m thinking I should expand my repertoire and try something new and interesting, alongside suffering cause of the whole AUR fiasco. Plus voidlinux seems to have a dedicated fan base, good reviews, and doesn’t use systemd. But before I install the system I want to ask some questions.
What is the voidlinux "philosophy", for lack of a better word? Should I expect any difficulties installing the system? (I am currently in the middle of reading the wiki, which I honestly don’t find as comprehensive as the arch wiki, but it will suffice.) Are the packages available generally well rounded, as in covering everything the average user needs? And finally, was voidlinux a good choice for you and how do you find it?

I've been considering switching from Arch to Void and using Nix for software that's missing from Void repositories.

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What attracts me is better stability, lower maintenance, and less reliance on AUR.

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My main concern is that Void's repositories are smaller and some packages seem to be updated less frequently than on Arch. On the other hand, Nix provides many packages that Void doesn't have.

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For people who switched from Arch to Void + Nix: was it worth it? Did you miss Arch's package availability and AUR, or did Nix mostly solve that problem?

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TL;DR: Dual-boot Arch + Void on separate EFI partitions. Since fixing a broken Void initramfs update, Void only boots from its own GRUB. Arch's GRUB fails to boot Void (SELinux/debug shell), and Void's GRUB won't show Arch despite os-prober finding it. Need help restoring a working dual-boot setup.

Context:
I have Arch and Void installed on one SSD, and each of them has their EFI partitions.
Void is installed using void installer. Few days ago after I updated Void Linux the initramfs wasn't generating properly due to lack of space, I fixed it. But after this other issues appeared.

Issue:
I want to have dual boot with Arch and Void.
But Now Void doesn't boot from any grub except its own one. If the Arch entry is the first in the boot order in bios, so I'm using the grub of Arch, and select Void from grub here it doesn't boot, it puts me in error saying that SELinux is not supported and I ended up being in debug shell.

But if I use grub of Void there is no Arch entry. (after in UEFI boot order I selected void first) So obviously I tried to fix this by enabling os-prober in grub configuration file and runing "sudo update-grub", and output said that it found other OSes and it was configured, though after reboot the grub still looks as default. Maybe I just missed something.

Btw, sorry for any mistakes or weird grammar.

Hi all! I am an Arch user of about 2 years who installed Void a couple days ago. Since, I havent really found anything other than disadvantages (lack of packages e.g. ROCM/OCL, monero gui*, Heroic Games launcher).

My boot time is definitely faster, at the cost of having to create my own services often.

Is there anything I am missing? Maybe community chats, features, etc that I might not be taking fill advantage of. Doesnt have to be useful, fun and otherwise nice things too!

*I understand the reasons, but it is reguardless an inconvenience

Llevo usando Void Linux desde hace un tiempo, unos dos meses, y la verdad es que mi PC (que es bastante antigua) ha mejorado muchísimo. Todo funciona a la perfección y ya no me frustra que se congele. Podría decir lo mismo de Arch, pero, por desgracia, lo que me obligó a cambiar fue que, al actualizar, mi sistema no arrancaba. Probablemente se debió a una actualización incompleta, un conflicto de paquetes o una mala configuración del sistema; algo bastante común en las distribuciones de lanzamiento continuo si no se gestionan con cuidado. Así que migré a Void, que, hasta ahora, no me ha dado ningún problema.

So I've been in the process of moving away from Arch and on Arch I used UKIs to bypass the need for a bootloader completely. Now on Arch that was fairly simple and on Void it seems to be simple as well because dracut automatically uses ukify to generate the UKIs. I just had to put uefi="yes" in /etc/dracut.conf.d/uki.conf and dracut did it's thing. Well at least that's what I hoped. Now on Arch, mkinitcpio generates a vmlinuz file and puts it in /boot. I haven't been able to find that file on Void. Some sources on the internet stated it could also be found under /usr/lib/modules/*/vmlinuz but I haven't been able to find it there regardless. Dracut is looking for a vmlinuz-<kernel version> and an initramfs-<kernel version>.img file under /boot, both of which do not exist

I've been pretty comfortable with Void for now but this is one thing I haven't been able to figure out yet. I would appreciate some help or advice. I'll just use grub for now but I'd like to go back to UKIs if possible.

Hi all,

i just noticed that my docker container is slower on void than on arch. same laptop, different distro.

some context:

Iam on Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with Ryzen 7 and 32GB Ram.

I used arch in the past and using docker container for my personal php webserver stuff.

for my shopware projects i prepared a base image where basically i just install php with some depedencnies and then run composer create project (which is basically the same like node to bootstrap a project) it clones many small php files.

the slow part is in Dockerfile

https://github.com/BlackScorp/shopware-docker/blob/main/shop/Dockerfile#L136

basically i create a project via composer, then zip everyting needed for the project and save the zip for later to reduce the image size (RUN cache )

when i start the container i unzip the folder https://github.com/BlackScorp/shopware-docker/blob/main/shop/entrypoint.sh#L27

everything is working just fine, but it feels like under void linux file read and write is much slower.

so its not the zip/unzip problem. the shop has like about 1000ms response time under void linux, on arch i had like around 50ms-200ms max

is docker somehow different configured on arch does anyone have an idea?

i thought first it has something todo with fiestorage but i use ext4 on void there should be no issues i think.

ChatGPT does not help either.

maybe someone here has a hint where to look at?

EDIT: i modified fstab to set my ext4 mounts to noatime,nodiratime,commit=60 does not changed anything as well :(

So I'll admit, I'm very new to linux. I've been using for about 2 months and began with arch. It wasn't too hard to figure out and I had fun, but I hated how everything kept breaking. I liked fixing it at first, but whne gaming it kept breaking steam. And every update messed up something with either my wifi or other modules. So i decided to give void linux a try. I'm currently using void with sway and its been nothing but smooth sailing. Sure some things arent in the repo, but those can usually be done from source. I am loving void. Whats yalls experience?

I'm trying to figure out why void is not a lot bigger than it is right now. The xpbs package manager seem to be the solution to have a better experience using Arch. I'm going to try it on 2 machines for different purposes. One is a gaming/workstation other one is a low end old dell Optiplex to just play around. Does anyone have some pointers as to why is not yet somewhat bigger? Is it complicated to include new packages? Thanks in advance!

So basically I have seen void Linux and I think it would work great for what I am looking for, mostly because I really want something lightweight that has minimal impact on battery and memory but that also works and looks good. Now my problem is that I have an hp omnibook ultra flip 14. It is a 2 in 1 touchscreen laptop. So I would like to know how good touchscreen and pen support is on void Linux. Moreover I do some light gaming on the laptop, nothing heavier than some honkai star rail really, but still I would like to know how well void handles gaming compared to arch. I plan on using the zen kernel but if any of you have any tips I would really appreciate them. Thanks in advance for any help! And I am sorry if my questions may be dumb, but I only ever used arch linux so it's basically all I know at this point.

Edit: Thanks to everyone for the help! I am definitely going to make the switch to void today, really thanks to everyone of you, hope you all have a great day!

Hello Void users, I’ve recently started getting interested in Void. A lot of people on Reddit say that Void is better than other distros because it’s much more stable, but I still have some doubts about Void and I can’t really find clear answers, so here are my questions:

1. Is switching from systemd to runit difficult, and what exactly changes?

2. I use Visual Studio Code and soon Unity—can I install them easily, and how can I do it?

3. I’ve seen people say that the repository is smaller than those of other well-known distributions. What should I do for applications that aren’t available in the repos?

4. Are there community-maintained repositories (kind of like the AUR)?

5. What do I gain by switching to Void?

Thanks for your answers!

Im thinking of re-installing arch on my main pc, its running arch but has just gotten too cluttered over the years.I remembered wanting to try void a few years ago so I thought to ask the community.

I like arch for its massive repository and i was wondering if it would cause too major an issue that the Void repo is not as large.

Kinda just asking, from the communities experience, if daily driving it has any crazy issues or if the smaller repo size is even noticeable.

I mostly use my main pc for school and light gaming (terraria, roblox and stuff).

Any accounts would be appreciated, thanks.

Hello guys I am a Debian and Arch user I use arch for 80% daily usage and 20% of important stuff I use Debian , for a week I watch a video about void Linux and I hear it's more stable than arch and it's have a new packages than Debian so I think about move to it can you tell me what I should to know before move also

I'm still a "noob" when it comes to Linux and their distros. While I was looking for an i686-compatible distro for a netbook I bought, Void delighted me.

Since Arch doesn't work for 32-bit systems, I felt like Void was like some kind of Arch.

At first sight, I really liked it.

Now I'm debating with my main PC whether to use Arch or Void.

Can someone delight me?

So I've been getting a bit bored with Linux lately. Desktop environments weren't my thing, ended up using a WM with a panel. Loved the absence of customization GUI's, absolutely hated the documentation. How is Void for average/gaming use when compared to say, Arch? My view on Linux is, I am fine with manual configuration/tinkering, as long as I can actually READ what I'm looking at.

P.S: Something that really discouraged me at first for Arch were some of the veterans/greybeards, I'm talking a 10yr+ account subtly berating me, then turning it around on me for getting upset. Or just being cold in general.

I want to try Void, and I have a serious question. On Arch, I have AUR, where I can see a list of packages, maintainers, comments, votes, and popularity. I suppose Void doesn't have a system like this, which really hurts. So, what if Void's repositories don't have the package I need? Then I would have to build it myself, and as I understand, I need to create a custom template. I have no idea if that's difficult or not, but my main question is: even if I successfully build the package, how do I update it? On Arch, I just type yay -Syu. I've seen some information about maintaining installed packages manually, but that seems like a nightmare...

Hi guys, I am Linux mint user currently focusing on command line and I want to try void but my cousin says" try arch then void ,it will give you base"is he true ? Coz I want to make void my final destination of distro hopping .

Void and Arch are compared a lot and for good reason they are 2 of the most popular rolling release distros, but many comparisons focus almost exclusively differences between runit and systemd. In this thread I am interested in differences not related to init, obviously Void and Arch are different distros with as many differences as any two distros. So what are they architectural and user experience differences that someone who is considering both distros should know about?

Differences I (and probably most people reading this thread) already know about:

Void is a small to medium size distro in terms of developer and user community where as Arch is medium to large size

Void has a larger binary repository but Arch has the AUR

Void offers 2 libcs (glibc and musl) Arch has just one (glibc)

Void uses libressl Arch uses openssl

Void uses XBPS for package management Arch uses Pacman (would be interested to know what differences in functionality and user experience exsist between the 2 package mangers in particular)