Im kindof a noob but I love linux
Im kindof a noob but I love linux
Such a cool piece of software. Use this community for anything related to linux for now, if it gets too huge maybe there will be some sort of meme/gaming/shitpost spinoff. Currently though... go nuts
Was thinking of making a Void Linux one, but I don't think there are enough users on Lemmy that use this particular distro.
I'm running Void Linux on one 11-year-old laptop (with XFCE and i3). My only complaint is that installing packages can be a lot more of a nuisance. The xbps repo doesn't have anywhere close to the number of packages in pacman+AUR, and I have run into trouble installing stuff much more often on Void than on Arch. There's a solution for everything, but in the end it's extra work. All that being said, Void is awesome and fun.
I have the same feelings as you do on the package managment. It's not always so great and it was one of the reasons why I have't i stalled void on my laptop (instead opting for artix). One more thing I'd like to add is the installer, for some reason I was always confused a bit by partitioning in installers. But manual partitioning like on arch is not really a great solution as well, because for people who have never done it before it is even more confusing.
Void seems to be surprisingly popular, I haven't tried it. I'm a Gentoo user, any particular reason to give Void a try?
It's basically like... this nice compromise between Arch and Gentoo. You got precompiled packages, but if you'd like, you can compile everything from source. xbps-src is like Portage on Gentoo, except some of the more popular packages get precompiled and put on the main repo (kernels, libraries, office suits, browsers, etc.).
I like it cuz if you'd like, you can get nitty gritty about it, but if you'd just like things to work out if the box, just use the repos and off you go. Plus, it comes with xfce by default (if you choose the DE ISO), which is what I use, so saves me the time to set up xfce. And it has a non-free repo, so that's also a big plus (take a proprietery package, repackage it for Void if the license allows it, if not, just leave the template in xbps-src and let users make their own package).
Also, it's incledibly stable for a rolling release distro. I also use it on some severs, I've never had a single one break something after an update. It's not as bleeding edge as Arch, so they'd rather opt for not something as new, but more stable, which I also like.
I love it. I've been using linux on and off for years now and though there are some issues here and there it's now my daily driver for 95% of my use (aside from cad suites). If you're looking for a moderately linux-savvy distro to jump to in the future I can definitely recommend fedora kinoite for KDE or silverblue for Gnome if you're into those. Kinoite has been rock-solid for me and only took a bit of getting used to.
Give it time.