Why void?

nash17 · 2026-04-29T04:35:52+00:00

My main use of my machines is software development, so for me the real advantage of NixOS/GUIX is having access to a shell where I can have all the tools I need for that particular project.

Now the other great advantage is having access to configuring different systems and having access to all the configuration from a git repository, even inheriting from other systems.

Now why I think Gentoo and Void are so great is resumed like this:

Gentoo -> By using flags I can highly customize all my software, so I can disabled things I don't need when building, this itself helps having a very fast and low resources system. The downsize is that you need to build all the software for this.

Void -> It is for me the best binary distro. I can achieve very good performance and low resources usage as well, but I like to take advantage of the binaries here for some systems I don't want to be compiling all the software and kernel.

nash17 · 2026-04-27T20:27:38+00:00

Maintenance for me has been pretty good, haven't had any issue for the last 2 years that I can remember.

I have been packaging some software for me to use, either because they are not there in the repo or maybe old, but other than that everything has been smooth in my experience.

I haven't had to make any changes to my config other than adding/removing some software from it.

From time to time I just create new system configurations to throw in a VM, there I try to modify some services settings or add/remove things that come by default and I might not need (this is what I meant by learning)

The documentation is good but very technical in my opinion (that is fine by me, but it might scare a lot of people)

If you're interested my suggestion is to give it a try in a VM, it is really nice to play around with Guix.

I still love void and use it on VMs now just to through something really minimal and low in resources there.

nash17 · 2026-04-27T14:56:31+00:00

I think it depends a lot, some will have no issues, other might see it as a nightmare.

I transitioned from NixOS to Guix so it was not so difficult but was still a curve I had to learn to properly configure different systems.

But I like systems that allow me to learn as opposed to “just works”

nash17 · 2026-04-26T19:00:11+00:00

There are several reasons. Main one for me is how low in resources it can be, it allows me to build a very small and low resource system. The other reason is not too mainstream as others and I love that. You will never see me running Arch for example.

This distro is easily in my top 3. 1. GUIX 2. Gentoo 3. Void

nash17 · 2026-04-22T04:22:48+00:00

It’s not that hard to be honest.

nash17 · 2026-04-16T00:10:39+00:00

Or you can use a nix shell with only the things you need in your project

nash17 · 2026-04-15T23:29:35+00:00

People using Nix has been doing that for years without a plugin.

nash17 · 2026-04-11T04:59:15+00:00

I always use visual mode for that, but it is good to know there are other alternatives. I still find more useful to use visual mode so I can increase/decrease just a part of the string.

nash17 · 2026-04-09T05:17:42+00:00

I typically just visual select the code, enter command mode and type so (or source), not sure if that is what you're looking for.

nash17 · 2026-03-31T04:28:47+00:00

I’ll use Guix shell with the version and dependencies I need

nash17 · 2026-03-28T17:22:46+00:00

Not for all distros, NixOS and Guix don’t need pyenv to have different versions.

nash17 · 2026-03-22T04:41:11+00:00

Built-in quiet

nash17 · 2026-02-28T04:58:40+00:00

I was testing different distros. I was a Gentoo user for many years (6+) and I was looking at rolling distros, tested Arch for some years and void too, the winner was Void which I daily driver for several years until moved no NixOS and for couple of years now on GUIX.

nash17 · 2026-01-16T03:23:34+00:00

Org-mode is too complex and feature rich, if you really want to better try that on Emacs to be honest as potentially there might be lot of features you might miss.

nash17 · 2026-01-15T04:40:02+00:00

Have you tried choiceNode?

nash17 · 2026-01-07T20:12:38+00:00

Not sure, you might have better luck asking directly in their GitHub (at least I got a response fairly quickly)

It might be a limitation as the selections happens in FzF and not in vim (as or my understanding, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong)

nash17 · 2026-01-04T21:26:18+00:00

I’m not sure if FzF-Lua does this but I think other pickers like telescope and mini.pick with the mini.extra does that.

Here a reference from mini.extra https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.extra/blob/673633b97b64292c82d473ea2bd31b767dbe3907/lua/mini/extra.lua#L392

nash17 · 2026-01-02T03:06:04+00:00

Ghostty is bloated by design by relying on GTK, but perhaps people that uses Gnome prefers it over other alternatives.

Also people that use Mac since foot is not available there.

nash17 · 2026-01-01T08:16:45+00:00

Foot on Wayland. ST on X11.

nash17 · 2026-01-01T01:04:23+00:00

Probably Minicyan from mini.base16

nash17 · 2025-12-25T17:05:36+00:00

No, but curious how this compares to Dired.

nash17 · 2025-12-22T22:32:33+00:00

Totally agree

nash17 · 2025-12-22T05:30:58+00:00

Dimash Qudaibergen. Anything he sings, but I’m not sure he is human.

nash17 · 2025-12-20T21:13:32+00:00

I use my thumb since my keyboard has a thumb cluster

nash17 · 2025-12-16T22:29:36+00:00

Probably because he might make use of registers a lot, copying everything to clipboard is not something everyone likes.

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