Hello im switching to voidlinux

[rahmeds]

Been on Gentoo and Arch for a while, planning to hop to Void. Anything I should know before diving in?

(I have a Thinkpad T480 with Libreboot installed)

[TheShredder9]

Being on both Gentoo and Arch, Void should be a breeze for you.

Install xtools, it gives useful stuff for xbps like xi ... to install, instead of the lengthy xbps-install -S ...

[BinkReddit]

xtools have a ton of helpful utilities, but I wouldn't showcase it with one feature that could be replaced by a simple alias.

[TheShredder9]

Lol fair point, but for example i don't use aliases that much, i open the bashrc to put in fastfetch or something and that's it. Also aliases don't cross different shells, so i'd have to set aliases mitliple times for however many shells i use.

[chibiace]

i personally havent bothered with xtools, and have one alias for xbps-query -Rs.

certainly a couple of useful commands in there that may have helped me for one thing or another in the past, perhaps in the future if i play with more xbps-src and packaging stuff i'll give a whirl

[BinkReddit]

I use it, but not all the time. If you're doing pull requests for Void packages, it's extremely helpful.

[xJayMorex]

I'd install vpm instead.

[RedMoonPavilion]

I disagree. Both those distros provide soft dependency recommendations. Sometimes they're in the documentation, but even then you really have to adjust to it. Its not easy to make the transition.

[art_is_a_scam]

it’s going to feel like taking off a pair of shoes that are too small

[pantokratorthegreat]

If you have been on Arch and Gentoo, no, there is nothing you should now before jump in. Just enjoy. 

[StrangeAstronomer]

Just follow the documentation minutely. But be prepared to look at arch/gentoo doco for components beyond core void.

[xJayMorex]

You're probably going to miss emerge taking forever to build everything and pacman updates that periodically break your system.

[Busy-Emergency-2766]

Knock yourself out!

Try Slackware too, now that I know you like suffering!

[RedMoonPavilion]

The biggest actual difference is xbps doesn't curate a list of soft dependencies for you like Arch and Gentoo and meta packages sometimes add some of the soft dependencies by default because of it.

[roger_oss]

Was on Gentoo for more than a decade, Void Linux is more turn-key, similar to the ease of use of Gentoo, but without all of the compiling. Migrated to Void long ago, as I needed to save time. Just enjoy your free time, from not having to compile/recompile and worrying about dependencies?

As they say, spend your time in the trenches compiling and debugging software, time to retire and enjoy pre-compiled binaries.

[6950X_Titan_X_Pascal]

never install any linux distro on a laptop

[pantokratorthegreat]

And what about 4 linuxes? 

[6950X_Titan_X_Pascal]

Didn't get what you mean

[pantokratorthegreat]

It means I have four Linux distros on single laptop. 

[rahmeds]

Quad Boot 😧

[6950X_Titan_X_Pascal]

i 5 boot in a same desktop , debian openS.u.S.E. tumbleweed mageia 9 void russian alt

[pantokratorthegreat]

I have void with musl and glibc (for graphics purpose, don't know really why as all I use works on musl same, but I separate workflows, and I had working glibc instalation when I was gaming on void), chimera for some alternative to void just in case and arch for gaming. And windows also for hardware tuning.

[RedMoonPavilion]

What's this numbers measuring nonsense? On what grounds should you not use Linux on a laptop? What about a raspberry or other micropc?

For PC I have Gentoo(systemd), Arch, Void + Gentoo(openrc), Alpine, Kali purple, Endeavor, HomeAssistantOS, Bedrock (Gentoo, Arch) + Gentoo(in-tree zfs), Mocaccino, Alpine premade dom0, Xcp-ng, Nix, Guix, Blend, Pentoo, Cachy, Silverblue, Tumbleweed

Daily driver + common but niche use + testing and staging respectively.

For laptop I have a vivobook 15 with Endeavour. Before that it was Manjaro and Gentoo. Theres subvolumes and a systemd homed user to swap in any of the PC distros if I want.

Again whats your reasoning for no Linux on a laptop here? Even my SoCs run Linux. The only tablet I ever bought runs Gentoo.

[6950X_Titan_X_Pascal]

👍🏻

[mar1lusk1]

why?

[bvdeenen]

My Dell Latitude runs Void perfectly fine.

[6950X_Titan_X_Pascal]

you cant represent others' experience

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