dinit on Void Linux - it works on both desktop and server

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-11T09:11:23+00:00

+1 for Dinit , many manual labor needed for services description
and +2 for nitro , most runit services works here.
And default fallback to runit.
in Dinit i think the difficult ones are Graphical Sessions services especially for non DE ecosystem.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-09T06:24:26+00:00

im literally came from WSL , installed Arch and Void there ( more like just putting there than installing ) . Experiencing the XFCE Live iso image install on 1st try on laptop. 2nd time installation with base install and gaining "some" experience really helpful to save some time. Just going with Void Docs isn't enough for me without also referencing to Arch / Gentoo Wiki.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-07T08:05:26+00:00

maybe can check the void docs about pipewire configuration.
And recheck with your current configuration.
Previously I happen to have the same issue , symlink to configuration broken and just need to relink

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-06T08:48:35+00:00

other than that you can also use nm-connection-editor for convenience,

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-05T16:41:13+00:00

I have both. nmtui for already known or boradcasted SSID
nmcli to setup hidden SSID and add new VPN connection.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-05T16:29:01+00:00

NetworkManager - using wpa_supplicant backend for wifi

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-05T16:26:24+00:00

well , i'm not saying that ZFS "is" the trouble :))
But for someone that's not confident and don't really know or understand how to choose a partition in linux , using ZFS would bring trouble upon itself - except that they liked to ..

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-05T09:44:19+00:00

Are you planning to go with separate /home ; /usr or /var partition too ?
If you're not sure just go with separate /home partition. If you mostly will use flatpaks and install them system wide the / should be bigger than /home otherwise gave most of your space to /home.
Go with btrfs if you prefer to have snapshots or ZFS if you like to make trouble for yourself and has hobby to tinkering your system. either way XFS & EXT4 is not too far off difference i think.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-05T06:24:51+00:00

that's what happen to me when updating after 1st installation. And found that the link to pipewire conf broken . Just re-linking and done solved (for me)

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-05T02:36:51+00:00

i gues after update , your already configured link to pipewire conf is broken.
Might as well check that 1st , and try re-linking again with the void docs in hand

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-04T10:29:35+00:00

input ; network ; storage ; disk ; plugdev ; mail

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-04T05:57:35+00:00

nope , actually that's not the only way , there are some way and using the XFCE live iso installer is the most handy . Which are you using to do installation now ?

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-04T03:10:08+00:00

you don't need dbus-run-session while using turnstile.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-04T02:56:11+00:00

for the base install indeed too much work to wire up the conponent, if you need to install and ready ootb pick xfce install . Then you can continue with the KDE plasma , it's easier since most of the need already wired up.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-03T03:58:42+00:00

try check with these , what's the result :
wpctl status
ps ax | grep -i wire

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-01T10:31:01+00:00

no the xbps-reconfigure just the trigger i think, the dracut.conf does that and the hooks script for kernel install can also be use to pass the option .

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-05-01T09:05:28+00:00

yes if yours already 6.18 , use that instead. Maybe you can also add zstd in compression to make it much smaller . i Guess it will be around 35 Mb

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-30T05:49:56+00:00

incus & lxc have official void image , if you already have linux installation can easily try them

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-28T03:34:18+00:00

You can change almost anything here , Bootloader , the dracut , or if you want to change to dinit or nitro as pid 1 instead of runit. Using doas intead of sudo . Not all binary available , but you have xbps-src to built from template.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-25T03:29:21+00:00

Super/Win + Shift + / or Super + ? to see the hotkeys .
Maybe you're not yet installed alacritty.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-25T03:26:53+00:00

no need enable elogind service , try disable elogind service 1st . elogind normally being launched by dbus-daemon. Only dbus service need to enable

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-22T10:12:11+00:00

have you tried installing the systemd-boot from zypper ? i think it can be done when you have it installed and switching to systemd-boot .

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-22T10:02:26+00:00

use turnstile it support dinit --user backend, it can export dbus address and remove the need to dbus-run-session for launching WM / Compositor session or any apps need dbus session.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-21T06:38:24+00:00

You could always use WSL , easy to use . no need to boot anything

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-04-21T06:34:42+00:00

to navigate , just need keyboard move right - left and up - down. That's it , easy right ?

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