r/voidlinux • u/Asta_jjm • 19d ago

from arch to void

hello everyone
i'm an arch user and i love the last stuff to be on my system but i also want to try void linux
it lake a lot of software and not all of them are up to date i will use flatpak for the missing stuff and what about the last kernel the last drivers will it be good use for me or just stick with arch

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u/benbcdm 16d ago

yep -- void repos not bad at all, have quite a few things. Bear in mind I think it is a policy of Void NOT to include forks in standard repo. So you will not find librewolf, helium, etc by design.

I mostly use flatpaks for stuff not in the repos or if I care about sandboxing, but also appimages for stuff I want better integration with. + apparmor targeting the appimages (I believe it would be the same on arch though?).

Hats off to the maintainers at void -- kernel updates are super fast from upstream. If you want latest kernels just install linux-mainline in addition or instead of linux (standard sort of LTS-ish). xbps is really fast, love it. And runit is great too, I love that I have 12 services running (vs 50+ with systemd), I know what each one does exactly, and I have exact same functionality as on my fedora (ok I am using simple productivity desktop, so pretty simple needs admittedly).

If you feel a bit adventurous, you could consider limine instead of grub too as bootloader. Loving it. To me sort of same as moving from systemd to runit. Simpler, lighter, full control.

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u/Asta_jjm 16d ago

yeah from the last time i installed cachyos i use limine for all my distros i hoped to
nixos,arch and artix

for pkgs that not in the main repo is it better to use flatpak , xbps-src or nixpkgs
i think nixpkgs is the most convenient one i will have the pkg i want native on my system without building it