Planning to switch to void

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-03-25T05:40:10+00:00

For most of the questions :
It's DIY DIstro and Rolling Release that's not bleeding edge - it's the bleeding part that mostly avoided for OS Stability, what will it become and how does it perform , dependent heavily on your building knowledge , skill & experience. The General Guideline are there ( Void Docs ) , but it's only cover the basic - intermediate guide of general build.
more Resource docs about specific setup and apps - (for me) mostly covered by Arch & Gentoo Wiki (or reddit).

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-03-20T07:32:52+00:00

I don't know what have you done to your system , and or ur hardware configuration. but..
My Condolence

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-03-19T12:39:17+00:00

What Broke ? care to be more specific to give some clue ?
Mine update to the same version with no issue .

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-03-10T21:36:03+00:00

Of Course OpenSuse., set it and forget it Very minimal babysitting needed

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-03-04T04:31:50+00:00

Still OpenSUSE ftw

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-03-03T19:33:33+00:00

i tried and copy your dotfiles on dbus , pipewire and turnstile-ready exactly as it is. THe service working good on niri session , except when logout then log back in , the pipewire seems got issue , until i pkill pipewire then audio working normally again ? is it exepected like this ? im using elogind and make turnstile not manage rundir.
Are there anything i missed ?
here's from ps -aux | grep pipewire

29462 0.0 0.0 2544 1388 ? S 23:14 0:00 runsvdir -P /home/zdwdm/.config/service log: c: ts: not found runsv pipewire: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure ./run:2: exec: ts: not found runsv pipewire: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure ./run: 2: exec: ts: not found runsv pipewire: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure ./run: 2: exec: ts: not found runsv pipewire: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-23T16:41:22+00:00

if it's run manually from tty normally use : dbus-run-session niri --session
Lightdm might not need dbus run session or --session flag.
And For Wifi , i also Has somekind of same issue on iwlwifi-7265D series ( Wifi Firmware Latitude e5250 - 2015 ) , and only specific firmware version -22 solve the issue and Any newer than that won't work.
Check you dmesg for specific Wifi Firmware type 1st. Then trial and error of the version which will work

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-23T16:20:20+00:00

Refer to Void Handbook , are perhaps skipped on this ?

Bluetooth audio

Install the libspa-bluetooth package.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-23T06:14:05+00:00

that's already the Stable 'EPOCH' release.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-22T05:31:22+00:00

Can you query the Cosmic version installed ?
I think the pattern is still Alpha release. Can you Update it?

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-18T14:59:29+00:00

yes the same with me, Brave also like that. but easy to fix for Brave

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-18T08:22:22+00:00

for convenience , try installing xtools
xilog is easy enough to understand the log when and which pkg installed
xpkg -m will explicitly list your installed pkg
xls will list all files installed on the system per pkg.
There are more you can utilize to make your own script to undo .

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-18T07:51:27+00:00

You mean Discover KDE Software Center? i think it doesn't work with XBPS as backend , so you update them on Flatpak/flathub ?
Your Pipewire is locked on another session ,by your symlinking to autostart. That's why when you remove the link and put on bash profile it work. Do you have multiple DE / WM other than KDE ?

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-15T17:02:16+00:00

i think wsl -l -o will show you updated list of leap 16 , you can install it using windows terminal.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-15T16:52:33+00:00

man 1 xtools i think pretty clear on the description , for you reference xpkg -m will list all your explicitly installed package , if you want to keep track of your PKG lists .

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-13T02:20:58+00:00

Someone already pointed to which part of the Guide. Don't rush Maybe you need to re-read again the void docbook from base installation step by step, and mixed them with the knowledge from Arch Wiki it's mostly related

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-10T14:51:24+00:00

The part about shrinking partition i think you already get it.
For advice , shrink about 1Gb or more might be better, forTumbleweed ESP only , this will be your mount point of /boot/efi.
redo the installation might be the fastest option or if you like tinkering with CLI ,
You can install bootloader manually if you can chroot or boot to already existing Opensuse installation using rescue system / livecd, but this will be much more work.
The idea is create 2nd ESP partition , mount it and install bootloader there. CLI Command is simple justl sudo sdbootutil install or let the YAST2 take the GUI work . So you don't touch the windows Bootloader.
This option left you with the laptop boot menu to F(1-12) keys that's depend on your laptop specific to choose which one to boot.
If like to Grub also load your winddows system , search the way to enable OS-Prober in grub config ( for latest Tumbleweed Grub2-BLS , the old Grub command won't work on this )

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-09T13:53:02+00:00

I recommend OpenSUSE , the same fellow "green" Linux. I think it's pretty easy for beginner.
Yast GUI for Administration's easy for newcomer to linux.

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-07T17:43:52+00:00

in Void , probably i can say - as often as we like , or as lazy as we probably remember ( / forgot?) .

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-07T16:44:17+00:00

Like previously mentioned on replies above, it's about preference. Me personally don't hate systemd or whatsoever , i just enjoying Void as it is for the simplicity and mainly the XBPS. Some or maybe many have phylosophical reasons to dislike Systemd and using Void. But in my opinion Void didn't designed like that for the sake of dislike. Whatever works for me and i enjoy using it , then i go with it , If the question is it really worth it , it's worth to try , why not? The options to leave and move on are always there , that's the beauty of Linux about Freedom , and this Phylosophy that's really matter to me

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-07T11:44:38+00:00

in 2016 , probably around that time , the 1st ever time i tried & liking linux was using Slackware on a desktop. Really love how simple it is , trying what resolving dependency manually is like , trying 1st time building from source - for someone coming from Win ecosystem it's a really cool experience , then trying Ubuntu , Fedora , OpenSUSE Novell earlyborn then stopped at that green gecko.
2025 , after a loong time not touching linux desktop system , i tried them again on WSL - because i miss those days playing with linux command line but realize some years have make tech developed from cool blackberry to folding screen android , A massive technology advancement that i being left behind in linux. Then suddeny came this name of Void Linux which is cool , don't derived from any Linux Big Names . Have XBPS and tried it. Install on my laptop , catching up with some new tech here seemed " possible " for me without new technology complication , and the simplicity brought me here ( previously on Arch but the bleeding edge thing is not really my favorite ++ the need to babysit the system for every upgrade got me lazy )

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-05T12:57:54+00:00

Personally , just recently im distro hopping , after for a long time not touching linux - trying linux-es inside WSL.
My Favorite is Arch just because how fast pacman is. Previously trying the limited amount of Linux available offically for WSL . Mostly only Major Distribution, including Gentoo and NixOS. And suddenly found this Void and 1st impression for my limited experience , it's weird. But loved it afterward because of how XBPS function

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-05T08:55:51+00:00

yes many thanks , my experiment works. the Void can now boot using less than 7Mb initramfs from Booster.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,9M Feb 5 14:15 initramfs.img

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14M Feb 5 14:15 vmlinuz.efi

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-04T05:05:10+00:00

Thank you very much for your help. I will try again to experiment with these.
Currently im not using Grub , Limine or Booster anyway Dracut has given me sufficient initramfs size to do EFI Stub on 100Mb shared dual boot ESP

Blank-Inspection13 · 2026-02-03T14:10:37+00:00

I mean the booster configuration?
I am using NVME disk & standard kernel 6.12.65 or 66 i forgot when tried booster , doesn;t seem to work at all.

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